Dry and itchy skin in the winter

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Does anyone else get that dry and annoyingly itchy skin in the winter? My tummy and my boob have been so itchy and scaly lately and scratching doesn't help. Tonight while I was watching TV in bed, I decided to massage some hydrocortisone cream all over my itchy tummy instead of scratching it. The massage was nice at first and the cream gave a cooling sensation, but after about 5 minutes, my tummy started to itch again along with my back. Does this happen to anyone during the winter? I'm looking for ideas on home remedies because it's not healthy to be endlessly scratching my tummy and my back while I watch TV every night. Asking a family member doesn't work because my tummy is very sensitive to touch and last time I had my back scratched, my mom was too gentle. I kept telling her to go harder, but she didn't want to hurt me with her nails, so she kept lightly scratching. All that did was tickle me and spread out my itches to different places on my back.