Does anyone has problems with dry skin on hands in winter from cut-like areas?

Borrelia loves skin, and hands and other areas of frequent flexion can crack more easily in cold weather. It has plagued me for years and I always wondered why.

When I was a commercial fisherman there was always a tin of Bag Balm in the wheelhouse, that stuff helps a lot. Old School! To this day, the smell of bag balm takes me back to the Bering Sea.

love, love, LOVE Bag Balm!! It also creates a protective layer that will coat the hands - but it's not likely good to use then to go do things around the house. I would suggest that you use it at night only. For better penetration into the skin you can wear a pair of white cotton gloves at night. And bonus! - the gloves will keep the Bag balm on your hands and not your sheets and blankets!

I actually still use Udder Balm on my hands and feet (www.udder-balm.com/) - winters and summers are hard on my hands and feet! And the Bag balm is hard to deal with unless my hands/feet are really bad and need the extra care that Bag Balm gives them.

I hope this helps!!

My mom (who doesn't have Lyme) gets the same thing with her hands. They are crazy dry with cuts on them. She can't find anything that helps. Pure shea butter helped a lot at first but stopped working after a while (shea terra organics brand). Sleeping with lotion on with gloves over helps a little. She uses just the generic walmart lotion. When she gets a cut she puts on antibiotic ointment and a bandaid. Oh and certain foods like corn and I think avocado and bananas makes her hands worse and so does latex. She has tried putting coconut oil on her hands but it didn't help.

In the winter I get really dry hands and little chunks of my skin will come off and the only thing that resolves it is espom salt baths (or just soaking your hands in epsom salt might work too). I have read some people say epsom salt is drying but it makes me very not dry, so maybe it could help you too. Too much epsom salt on dry skin might not be good though, you would have to experiment to find the right amount for your hands.

I hope you find something that works! And when you do, can you post it here? Those cuts look so painful and I would love to find something to resolve my mom's dry hands.

Can you post the website for Bee Butter Balm? I google searched it but multiple sources were coming up.

Thank you so much! I think is also because I wash my hands a lot with antibacterial soap. When it gets really bad I use baby soap. Winter is definately aggravating it. I don't get this in the summer.

Doing dishes also aggravates my hands because of the dish detergent. Hubby got me new gloves so hopefully that will help.

Is this what you are talking about, IHL? :goo.gl/ICM79E