Do you ever suddenly get this itch, just about anywhere on your body, like say your shoulder, and while your’ scratchin’ your shoulder, your feet feel itchy? Like a contagious itch, for no reason. Why does this happen?
or is it just me?
(And if I may add, hell no, it is’nt an allergy or skin infection blaa blaa.)
scratches his head and closes the window
Yes - exactly as you describe, twelfthsign - I had always assumed that it was either crosstalk between adjacent neurons in the spine or perhaps in the brain.
There’s a place on my eyebrow, that, if I rub it, I get an itch on my scalp.
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I don’t know if I heard this somewhere else, or if I came up with it myself, probably the former…
Itches are caused by an irritation due to any number of things, and that our skin is constantly irritated, just in varying degrees. When you scratch an itch, it causes the itch to go away, but because the skin has been stimulated, it will trigger the next most irritated spot on your body and it then becomes the next itchy spot.
No idea where I heard this.
Now I’m having itches everywhere. Thanks a lot.
I’ve heard this is rather common, although I don’t remember ever experiencing it myself; IIRC, it’s caused by a string of nerves that are shared by both the neck/shoulders and the feet. I think acupuncturists often exploit this common “nerve pathway”, but I’m not really sure.
Yes, this happens to me. There is a small patch on my back that when scratched causes a tingle in my foot. Although I don’t know the answer to this, I think that Mangetout is on the right track for an explanation.