This is why your skin becomes red and blotchy. Beware the itch-scratch cycle! Scratching your skin releases extra histamine, sending more itchy signals to your brain. Do it too much and you will ...

Perpetuation of the itch-scratch cycle (see Figure 1) alters the integrity of skin leading to barrier damage. Scratching also causes undesirable changes in skin such as lichenification and prurigo ...

You're also more prone to "subconscious scratching" while you sleep, she adds, which can feed into the ongoing "itch-scratch" cycle 2. In other words, you scratch to relieve an itch, but it only ...

What doesn’t kill you makes you crazy By Krista Madsen There are various ailments from which I imagine you could easily lose ...

Lichenification develops as a result of chronic scratching and/or rubbing (the "itch-scratch cycle") and mainly involves the cutaneous portion of the vulva. Lichenification is characterized ...

Scratching, it engenders pain in the skin, which interrupts the sensation of itch and it gives you the sense of relief that actually feels really good. It's really pleasurable to scratch.

Patients with eczema typically respond to irritants or allergens that can cause inflammation in the skin starting the itch-scratch cycle. Sometimes friends and family think that eczema is ...