Creepy Crawlers!

[TRC4941]

I think most of us have seen the pictures of the tiny organisms we all have creeping around in out eyebrows, skin, etc. My question is…

When you suddenly get an itchy spot somewhere on your body and you know it isn’t a rash, mosquito bite or picky clothing what causes it? Is it possibly these “bugs” and we can suddenly feel them?

[bob_2]

Itching has multiple causes and creepy-crawlies are just one of them

The definition [of an itch] still accepted by most doctors and researchers today was put forth some 350 years ago by a German physician named Samuel Hafenreffer. He wrote in somewhat circular manner than an itch is any “unpleasant sensation that elicits the desire or reflex to scratch”. If you scratch, then the sensation that provoked it is by definition an itch. It’s a definition that may be reliable, but it’s probably not all that useful.

This BBC piece gives a good oversight of the phenomenon

Caution - reading it will probably make you itch.

[snfaulkner]

Now I itch all over just thinking about it. Thanks for that.