Please help

So i ended my period Monday/Tuesday morning and my vagina been itchy since then (on and off) and i been applying anti vagina cream which helps a lot.

I was talking to a friend and she said it’s normal to have a itch after ur period

Could it be because i didn’t change my pad a lot towards the end of my period (it was little period so i got lazy and didn’t change the pad Bc it wasn’t barley blood) but i was also sweating a lot with this heat and running around work a lot.

My friend said it could be a itch from the dry pad and sweating.

What should i do? Any advice?