Itching is one of the most common skin symptoms affecting the human body. The causes of itching vary. They are numerous and varied, some of which are caused by various clear and known skin diseases, and hidden underlying causes that can not easily be identified. Different tests are clinical or laboratory tests or even home tests that can be conducted by parents to see if there are actually insects on the person’s body.
Skin itching is classified into two main types depending on its spread and distribution in the skin:
- Itching is a type of itching that affects a specific part of the skin just like itching on the scalp.
- General itching is an itching that affects all parts of the body and is not specific to a specific place and is divided mainly into two main types:
- Skin itching associated with a skin rash and often this itching is associated with a specific type of skin rash due to the disease.
- Itching caused by hidden hidden disease and here is not accompanied by rash, because it is produced from diseases and obsessions hidden.
Skin diseases associated with general itching include:
- Dermatological diseases are the leading to the itching of general and the most important of the following:
- Scabies is a skin disease that affects the skin of a person because of being attacked by a certain type of infectious insects that do not see the naked eye and called this insect scabies, and after a period of this infection proliferate and spread insects generated within the skin and lead to skin sensitivity of the substances decomposed from these Insects and after the occurrence of this person feels severe itching may lead the person to his inability to sleep, and characterized by this type of excellence where it is easy to know and distinguish it from its obvious symptoms.
- Insect animal: This insect is very similar to scabies that occurs to humans, where the transmission of the infection of the animal to the person who is in constant contact with them, and include these animals on poultry, pigeons, cats, sheep and horses, but this type of scabies is not lasting for a long time On the skin and the disease disappears on its own without treatment for the skin, but suffers from the same severity of itching in human scabies.
- Exposure to insect tick: where this type of insects in the feathers of some types of birds such as pigeons, birds, poultry and others may also grow on the wool of some types of cattle such as sheepskin and camels and others, which leads to entering the body itching, such as touching the old furniture, which is stored inappropriately .
- It is difficult to distinguish between this type of itching and those caused by human scabies but the distinguishing mark here is the presence of red spots of small size and in the middle of which frozen blood points can be detected By examining the clothing of the injured and finding out what is in it.
We note from the above some types of itching and causes of the body, but what is mentioned is some reasons for this, but there are many other reasons that a person must take precautions to prevent them.