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Is There Any Treatment For Chronic Itching In The Groin Area And Inner Thigh?

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Posted on Fri, 22 Feb 2013
Question: Is there any treatment for chrornic icthing in the groain area including inner thighs. It turns very bad in evening and also start ozing sometimes. All the creams and lotions like zole-f, clop-m etc only provide temporary relief and it comes back in few days.
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Answered by Dr. Gaurang Krishna (4 hours later)
Hello XXXXXXX,

Thanks for writing in.

Chrnoic itching in the groin area is mostly a fungal infection. If the infection is untreated for a long time or is inappropriately treated then it becomes chronic and allergic and that is why you experience oozing at times.

Do Not use Clop-M as it has a very strong steroid which may have local side effects.

My suggestion is to use Sertaconazole cream twice daily for a month. If the area oozes or itches a lot then you may use a mild cortisone cream like eumosone-M for 2-3 days. Try not to scratch the area. Use a moisturizing/soothing lotion like Venusia to calm down the skin.

This will help you a lot.
Try doing this for 2 weeks. See if it helps you or not..Please keep me posted about the progress.

Regards
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Is There Any Treatment For Chronic Itching In The Groin Area And Inner Thigh?

Hello XXXXXXX,

Thanks for writing in.

Chrnoic itching in the groin area is mostly a fungal infection. If the infection is untreated for a long time or is inappropriately treated then it becomes chronic and allergic and that is why you experience oozing at times.

Do Not use Clop-M as it has a very strong steroid which may have local side effects.

My suggestion is to use Sertaconazole cream twice daily for a month. If the area oozes or itches a lot then you may use a mild cortisone cream like eumosone-M for 2-3 days. Try not to scratch the area. Use a moisturizing/soothing lotion like Venusia to calm down the skin.

This will help you a lot.
Try doing this for 2 weeks. See if it helps you or not..Please keep me posted about the progress.

Regards