Pruritus WisdomCard™
Our Guides and Physician Review team have organized the Top 10 Health Resources on Pruritus and compiled helpful research notes below.
Itch (Latin: pruritus) is an unpleasant sensation that evokes the desire or reflex to scratch. Itch has many similarities to pain and both are unpleasant sensory experiences but their behavioral response patterns are different. Pain creates a reflex withdrawal while itch leads to a scratch reflex. Unmyelinated nerve fibers for itch and pain both originate in the skin, however information for them is conveyed centrally in two distinct systems that both use the same peripheral nerve bundle and spinothalamic tract....read more from Wikipedia
Fast Facts:
- Common causes are allergies, insect bites, eczema, parasites, psoriasis, and rash.1
- Treatment can include antihistamines, corticosteroid creams, and calamine lotion.2
- Some ways of preventing pruritis are avoiding poison ivy and preventing sunburn. Most causes cannot be prevented.3
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Top Resources on Pruritus
- WebMD: Skin Conditions: Pruritus
- Wikipedia: Itch
- MedlinePlus: Itching
- MedicineNet: Itch
- Merck Manuals: Itching
- A.D.A.M. (via HealthScout): Itching
- WrongDiagnosis: Pruritis | Symptom: Pruritis
- DoctorsLounge: Pruritus (Itching)
- NHS Direct: Itching
- Medicine Online: Pruritis - Itching
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- Contributor: Chris Miller
- Reviewer: Amy Sandhu
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Nov. 12, 2009
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Meet our contributors and reviewers
- Contributor: Chris Miller
- Reviewer: Amy Sandhu
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: PRURITIS, ITCHING, ITCH, Pruirtis, Itches
- Last update: Nov. 12, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
