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An itch is a sensation that makes you want to scratch, and it's related to pain but causes a different response—while pain makes you pull away, an itch triggers a scratching reflex instead. Understanding itch matters because it's a common sensory experience that affects how our bodies respond to irritation in distinct ways compared to other unpleasant sensations.
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Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Itch
- Medical condition.image
- Itch 01.JPG
- Medical condition.caption
- A man scratching his back
- Medical condition.field
- Dermatology
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Compulsion to scratch an irritated area of skin
- Medical condition.causes
- Certain infections, allergies (from rashes, welts or hives), blood derangements and environmental factors
- Medical condition.risks
- Dry skin
- Medical condition.diagnosis
- Often based on the causes of itching
- Medical condition.differential
- Pain
- Medical condition.treatment
- Antipruritics, phototherapy
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Research
37,295 papers- Physiology and Pathophysiology of Itch.ReviewPhysiological reviews · 2020Cevikbas F, Lerner EADOI: 10.1152/physrev.00017.2019
- Itch: Epidemiology, clinical presentation, and diagnostic workup.ReviewJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology · 2022Roh YS, Choi J, Sutaria N et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2021.07.076
- Itch: Pathogenesis and treatment.ReviewJournal of the American Academy of Dermatology · 2022Sutaria N, Adawi W, Goldberg R et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2021.07.078
- Itch: From mechanism to (novel) therapeutic approaches.ReviewThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2018Yosipovitch G, Rosen JD, Hashimoto TDOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2018.09.005
- Peripheral itch sensitization in atopic dermatitis.ReviewAllergology international : official journal of the Japanese Society of Allergology · 2022Tominaga M, Takamori KDOI: 10.1016/j.alit.2022.04.003
- Itch.ReviewCurrent biology : CB · 2025Murphy LN, Lumpkin EA, Bautista DMDOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.021
- Basic mechanisms of itch.ReviewThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2023Misery L, Pierre O, Le Gall-Ianotto C et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2023.05.004
- Atopic Dermatitis Itch: Scratching for an Explanation.ReviewThe Journal of investigative dermatology · 2024Biazus Soares G, Hashimoto T, Yosipovitch GDOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2023.10.048
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Itch.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Pruritic skin conditions
- health specialty
- dermatology
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000432
- ICPC 2 ID
- S02
- partially coincident with
- formication
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C3344
- different from
- scrapie
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