Scratching where it itches reduces the presence of potentially harmful bacteria on the skin, studies in mice show.

Anxiety can cause physical reactions like rashes itching and hives Learn how stress affects the skin why anxiety makes you itch and effective ways to manage these symptoms for relief ...

Medically reviewed by Chris Vincent, MD You'll often notice that your skin itches when healing, but the science behind this ...

The following is a summary of “Exploring itch in hidradenitis suppurativa with lessons from atopic dermatitis and psoriasis,” ...

Various types of itch have been described, including those related to skin disease, systemic disease, nerve fiber damage, and psychiatric or psychologic conditions. At any given time, patients may ...

This causes nerve fibres to send itchy signals to your brain. 3. Itches have their own nerve network Until recently we thought that itch and pain both shared the same pathways, but in 1997 a ...

Pictured is the nerve ending, in green, of a specialized type of itch nerve in the skin of mice. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jul. 10, 2019, issue of Science Translational ...

This allowed the researchers to infer that the chronic itching sensation experienced by the patients was not caused by a dysfunction of the nervous system, but rather by a problem with the ...