ITCHING INHIBITOR AND ITCHING-INHIBITING COMPOSITION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly safe itching inhibitor having excellent effects on intractable pruritus cutaneous, and rapidly exhibiting the effects, and to provide an itching-inhibiting composition containing the itching inhibitor as an active ingredient. SOLUTION: The itching inhibitor contains at least one kind of components (D) selected from a lacto-oligosaccharide (A), an antipruritic (B) and an antiinflammatory agent (C) as essential active ingredients. At least one kind selected from lacto-N-neotetraose and lacto-N-tetraose is used as the lacto-oligosaccharide (A). At least one kind selected from diphenhydramine, crotamiton, derivatives thereof and salts thereof is used as the antipruritic (B). At least one kind selected from dexamethasone, prednisolone, clobetasone butyrate, glycyrrhizinic acid, glycyrrhetinic acid, derivatives thereof and salts thereof is used as the antiinflammatory agent (C). COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT