Mosquito bites are itchy and we tend to scratch itchy things. The scratching feels good in the short term but tends to hasten and exacerbate swelling and inflammation. This leads to more ...
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 ...
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So you had a whole day without a single itchy peep from your feet. And when you get into bed at night, all of a sudden your feet start itching. You scratch the spot and go back to resting. But the ...
It was a feeling that insisted she scratch. Except scratching never helped. And she had the scars to prove it. She had suffered episodes of itching like this a few times in the past couple of ...