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Head flaking help

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Ok, so I live in a severely dry environment and I don't know if its just cause I'm getting older but it's starting to affect me a lot more harshly, cracking my hands but the one bad one, is dry scalp so bad, I've been trying medicated shampoo and all sorts of **** and I can't seem to shake it, touch my head and flakes start flying out like a shedding cat.

Anyone have experience with this issue what they did to solve it?
 
Ok, so I live in a severely dry environment and I don't know if its just cause I'm getting older but it's starting to affect me a lot more harshly, cracking my hands but the one bad one, is dry scalp so bad, I've been trying medicated shampoo and all sorts of **** and I can't seem to shake it, touch my head and flakes start flying out like a shedding cat.

Anyone have experience with this issue what they did to solve it?

Sometimes we think we are the only person in the world "that has what I have". I'd see a local doctor. If it happens to you, it happens to others, and if there is a treatment you're golden.
 
Ok, so I live in a severely dry environment and I don't know if its just cause I'm getting older but it's starting to affect me a lot more harshly, cracking my hands but the one bad one, is dry scalp so bad, I've been trying medicated shampoo and all sorts of **** and I can't seem to shake it, touch my head and flakes start flying out like a shedding cat.

Anyone have experience with this issue what they did to solve it?
h2ow is your water intake?
 
You seem to have identified it as dry scalp, so use a moisturizer. Same for your hands. Do it all after showering. Some people have used moisturizer their entire adult life (my wife I think).

Hot shower, dandruff shampoo (optionally with moisturizer or conditioner)
After you shower while head is still damp, apply a moisturizer to it and rub it in.

I use this for my face, but I barely use any and it's not really cheap.
Oil-Free Moisture - Moisturizer for Sensitive Skin | Neutrogena(R)

I thought finding a good, cheap facial moisturizer would be easy, but it was absurd..that industry. Anyway you may be able to find a generic but still gentle/basic moisturizer, and use it on your head (and face, heck why not). Personally I'd try to find one as generic as possible, I don't want a hundred chemicals just for moisturize, if you know what I mean. You do not want any retinol or anti-aging IMO, just moisture.

- I noticed this when I grew a beard...really dry itch. I use moisturizer on it now, barely notice any symptoms.
- you are correct, age is also a factor.
 
Ok, so I live in a severely dry environment and I don't know if its just cause I'm getting older but it's starting to affect me a lot more harshly, cracking my hands but the one bad one, is dry scalp so bad, I've been trying medicated shampoo and all sorts of **** and I can't seem to shake it, touch my head and flakes start flying out like a shedding cat.

Anyone have experience with this issue what they did to solve it?

I have severe dry skin and I've always had a problem with dandruff skin flaking off of my head. The only way I can control it is it with an over the counter shampoo call the Neutrogena t gel. It is a shampoo with a coal tar ingredient you can get the name friend or you can get other brands just make sure it has coal tar or nu tar in it. I tried the medicated crap to I tried to Head and shoulders none of it worked but that did.
 
When I spoke to a dermatologist in general, one of the tips she told me was never use shampoo every day, your scalp produces natural oils that gets dried out by frequent shampooing. Also use a conditioner when you do.
 
Ok, so I live in a severely dry environment and I don't know if its just cause I'm getting older but it's starting to affect me a lot more harshly, cracking my hands but the one bad one, is dry scalp so bad, I've been trying medicated shampoo and all sorts of **** and I can't seem to shake it, touch my head and flakes start flying out like a shedding cat.

Anyone have experience with this issue what they did to solve it?

See a physician. Or a detrmatologist.

Good chance of something like seborrheic dermatitis, and there are prescription shampoos with corticosteroids and/or antifungals that work wonders.
 
Ok, so I live in a severely dry environment and I don't know if its just cause I'm getting older but it's starting to affect me a lot more harshly, cracking my hands but the one bad one, is dry scalp so bad, I've been trying medicated shampoo and all sorts of **** and I can't seem to shake it, touch my head and flakes start flying out like a shedding cat.

Anyone have experience with this issue what they did to solve it?

I have some spots that have been very problematic. I finally went to a dermatologist and was given a steroid cream and then some stronger moisturizing lotion. Depending on the issue, you might need to steroid cream initially to knock down w/e it is and assist your skin in recovering and then the moisturizer to keep it knocked own after that.
 
Ok, so I live in a severely dry environment and I don't know if its just cause I'm getting older but it's starting to affect me a lot more harshly, cracking my hands but the one bad one, is dry scalp so bad, I've been trying medicated shampoo and all sorts of **** and I can't seem to shake it, touch my head and flakes start flying out like a shedding cat.

Anyone have experience with this issue what they did to solve it?

Let me get the stupid question out of the way: have you seen a dermatologist?
 

I have a weird habit of putting off the visit to the specialist for as long as possible. This isn't due to any kind of reasoning in my head; I just don't wanna. Then I finally break down, see the specialist, get the medication I need, and my problem goes away pronto.

I'm 99.792% certain that when you do finally break down and see a dermatologist, he or she is going to write you a prescription in a bored manner, your scalp will clear up and you'll wonder why you didn't do this months ago.
 
I have a weird habit of putting off the visit to the specialist for as long as possible. This isn't due to any kind of reasoning in my head; I just don't wanna. Then I finally break down, see the specialist, get the medication I need, and my problem goes away pronto.

I'm 99.792% certain that when you do finally break down and see a dermatologist, he or she is going to write you a prescription in a bored manner, your scalp will clear up and you'll wonder why you didn't do this months ago.

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When I spoke to a dermatologist in general, one of the tips she told me was never use shampoo every day, your scalp produces natural oils that gets dried out by frequent shampooing. Also use a conditioner when you do.

Call this icky if you want but I believe that Westerners "wash and shampoo too much" altogether.
That doesn't mean that slacking off on hygiene is a good thing, hygiene is very important.
I'm simply saying that a person's body needs to have a healthy balance of its own oils and whatever you call it and that we were not meant to be pickled in soap and hot water every single day.
Now, if your job gets you sweaty and dirty every day, looks like you don't have a choice, but then you have to PUT BACK some of what you just scrubbed off, in order to compensate.

And that includes the hair and scalp. I am balding but the rest of the hair on my head tends to stay in balance, so when I do shampoo, I normally use an amount the size of a kidney bean unless my hair has become extremely dirty that day.

On the other hand, if my wife doesn't shampoo thoroughly every two days, her head turns into an oil slick.
Obviously we are all different but your scalp sounds like it's being stripped of its beneficial stuff and being dried out.
 

May I PLEASE ask a stupid question, and it has to do with skin dryness and all that other stuff.

Are you a black man, an if so, are you also "ashy" on certain patches?
I believe it is related.
 
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