Every autumn as it starts to get cold I get extremely itchy legs. Scratching relieves it, but as soon as I stop, the itch starts again. It normally occurs early evening, but can start again in the ...
But all itches, low-level or consuming, present the same question: why? Why do we itch? What is its evolutionary purpose? What, over millions of years, was itching honed to accomplish, and where ...
patients with eczema and psoriasis (another skin condition which causes itching), almost 70 per cent of patients found that Itch Stopper alleviated itching within a minute of use. Charlotte Thorpe ...
Researchers identified a mechanism for why some people will itch from an allergen or mosquito bite exposure, while others will not in a new study, and showed this pathway can be targeted to ...
Previous research from Sokol and colleagues showed that the skin's sensory nervous system—specifically the neurons that lead to itch—directly detect allergens with protease activity, an enzyme ...