Skin problems/Water Intake

Good morning all.
To Thanbey; Thanks for the encouragement:)
Since I'm relatively new to this Virus and treatment program, I have a couple of questions:
1. Is there any corrrelation between water intake and skin/eye dryness, itching issues?
2.  How much water are you drinking each day?
Thank you.

[honey1616]

You should be drinking at least half your weight in ounces.  Sometimes I do or even more and some days...I don't drink that much even.  I try to keep lotion on my whole body at all times for drying and am now getting those red bumps so am going to ask dr about that tomorrow.

[hph5477]

I drink at least 8 glasses of water daily; sometimes more.  I try to stay away from caffeine as that acts as a diuretic.  These meds seem to be dehydrating and you will find your skin a little drier than usual and probably more thirsty than usual.  I can tell that I get more tired when I'm not drinking enough and then I don't want anything else to drink either -- it's a vicious circle.  They also say that staying well hydrated helps with the sx so I don't argue with it, I just keep drinking.

BTW, just did 24/48 this past Friday.  Good luck with your tx.

[AK - Hepper]

I found that if I smear a little vaseline on my trouble spots after a shower before I dry off it helps a lot with the dry skin, even cleared up a few eczema spots. The dry eyes I had really bad at night, used over the counter eye ointment before sleep and that helped some.

[cindee]

Hi just wanted to say I used Alpa-Keri bath oil. It is a bit expensive, instead of putting it in my bath water, I would put some in my hands and rub over entire body, before drying off. I would just pat myself dry. It helped so much. However I got a terrible rash on fore-head and my doctor gave me synalar cream for that...it worked too! Best wishes to you all and I love you guys so much, Cindee

[scruffy]

Hi. I'm a guy and my beauty secret is a daily bath.

[Amerabrit]

Thank you all for responding. I have ceated my own Ms file and copy and paste your responses for future reference.