For many suffering from eczema or prurigo there is a nightly battle to defeat the itch-scratch-infect cycle. It starts with an itch, which you're compelled to scratch, and scratch and SCRATCH!
No surprise that the scratching results in an infection. And of course, the infection leads to more....itching... Extremes of temperature (either hot and humid, or cold) are one of the things that trigger itching.
One of the most common pieces of advice is, therefore,to keep your skin cool, thereby reducing itch. So, wearing light night clothes, light bedding and keeping your bedroom cool are practical measures that you can take.
We developed the sleepbreeze personal cooler as a practical means of keeping cool in bed. It's a fan that you can take into your bed, which provides a gentle breeze directly over your skin whilst you get to sleep.
Clinicians emphasise the importance of keeping the skin hydrated. So a balance is needed between providing sufficient airflow to keep cool and avoid the itch, whilst avoiding excessive drying of the skin.
The sleepbreeze personal cooler has 3 fan speed settings and it's airflow is directional allowing you to set just the amount of cooling that you need.
And most importantly, there is an in-built timer that brings the fan to a gentle stop after 15, 30 or 45 minute. In other words once you've fallen asleep it turns itself off without disturbing you.
This isn't a cure for eczema or prurigo. But we believe that it will help you manage the condition, get better rest at night and hopefully reduce the number of times the itch turns to scratch and leads to a nasty skin infection.
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