Itching: a symptom with many causes

Mosquito or other insect bites, dehydrated and sensitive skin, contact with stinging plants or irritating dust, allergies, mycosis or colonization by parasites (lice in primis). These are just some of the reasons that can lead to the development of a itching transient, recurrent or persistent, mild or unbearable, localized in a circumscribed skin area (more or less extensive) or spread over a large part of the body surface. Find out here what are the main causes of itching and see your doctor to investigate them if you begin to suffer from significant and persistent seemingly incomprehensible itching.

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Not scratching, how to get relief from hives itching

If this is the first time we have had it, how long has it been? We answer a few questions and review any other symptoms for individualized treatment.

Fifty years, time of crisis: deal with it this way

The well-known “midlife crisis,” from which both men and women suffer, is not a decadent literary invention but a reality that many, if not all, face between the ages of

Coronavirus updates: what you need to know

More than a third of the world’s population is made to stay at home or limit their movements. The worldwide count of COVID-19 cases today totals more than 483,000, with

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Let’s face it: despite the endless variations of diets and the ever-new activities offered by gyms to attract clients, of secrets and easy ways to achieve and maintain a fit

Lack of sleep weakens memory

For everyone when sleep is lost, memories are harder to reappear precisely because sleep restores and improves connections between brain cells. Particularly those who have already experienced the weakening of

Night cough, how to counteract it

Who has experienced at least once knows that there is only one thing worse than coughing insistent during the day: insistent coughing during the night and the accompanying throat discomfort.

How to retire and be happy

There are those who dream of it for years, thinking it will never come, and there are those who, after waiting for it for a long time, find themselves experiencing

Things that make the heart flutter-a little too much

The feeling, at least once in their lives, they have experienced it all. The frequency accelerates, the heart becomes “thinking,” it seems losing the rhythm, forgetting a beat, then chasing

All the benefits of the outdoors

During the summer you have probably had the opportunity to notice: spending more time outside the home, especially in the midst of the nature but also by visiting historical places

Liver-friendly foods

Alcoholic drinks, fried foods, sausages, fatty meats and cheeses, creams, Various sauces and gravies can be very attractive and pleasing to the palate, but they are much less so for

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Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a chronic skin condition characterized by the appearance of characteristic thickened, flaky, inflamed patches on well-defined, more or less extensive skin areas. The disease affects 0.1-3.0% of the

Candidiasis

Candida Albicans and other related species can result in different types of infections. Cutaneous candidiasis include the condition of eroded skin between the toes, balanines the mycosis of the nails,

Food allergies and intolerances

Physical reactions to certain foods are common, but for the most part they are caused by afood intolerance rather than a food allergy. A food intolerance can cause some of

Milky crust

Milk scab, technically referred to as “neonatal seborrheic dermatitis” or pityriasis capitis, is a transient and essentially harmless dermatologic disorder that affects the scalp of many infants and infants.

Peyronie’s or curved penis disease

Peyronie ‘s disease is a condition resulting from an abnormality of the penis due to fibrous scar tissue that appears on the penis changing its shape during erection, which becomes

Syphilis

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum and characterized by three successive stages of increasing severity (primary, secondary, and advanced syphilis), with slow and

Suppurative hydrosadenitis

Hydrosadenitis suppurativa (HS, Hidradenitis Suppurativa), also called acne inversa or Verneuil’s disease, is a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by the appearance of subcutaneous nodules (cysts), single or

Gonorrhea

Gonorrhea is one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) worldwide, in both sexes, starting as early as adolescence; if not recognized and treated appropriately quickly, it can lead

Mycosis

Cutaneous mycoses are a fairly large and diverse group of dermatologic conditions determined by the colonization of the epidermis by microorganisms such as Malassezia furur (responsible for pityriasis versicolor), dermatophyte

Hemorrhoids

Hemorrhoids are vascular structures of the anus and lower rectum that serve to maintain fecal continence. If they become swollen or inflamed, they become pathological and cause a syndrome known

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