Your measures worked I'm assuming because after a few bad days with duck itch my extended family and I did the exact same thing you were doing. The more diligent we were about rinsing and toweling off the less duck itch spots we had. Another thing I noticed is that it seemed to be worse after a few days of humidity and no wind. Once we had a few days of brisk wind in our cove it seemed to get better..don't know if this has any bearing on it at all, just an observation. Glad your measures worked! I had several spots myself that itched like crazy but thankfully went away w/in 2 days. I asked the emergency room nurse (long story..hubby trying to get off boat quickly during one of those violent thunderstorms a few weeks ago..his head met up with the dock in an unfortunate way!!! only 4 stitches though! ) what was the best thing for this darned duck itch and she said Benadryl plus a cortisone based cream.
