Ahead, 10 itches you should never scratch. Get The Healthy by Reader's Digest newsletter  Itches you shouldn't scratch 1.

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5. Itching is contagious, just like yawning Scientists proved this by showing a set of mice videos of other mice scratching. The first group started having a quick scratch too. 6. Contagious ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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