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Skin injury from scratching
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A member asked:
What is the definition or description of: Skin injury from scratching?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Why do I get scars even from surface scratch wounds? And how can I treat injuries better so they wont scar, I dont scratch them off when they itch.
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A 40-year old female asked:
Self injury to face with scissors. deep scratches. how can i hide these?
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A male asked:
Options for damaged eye. I suffered a horrible injury to my eye in a car accident 10 years ago where the doctor thought he'd have to remove but put back together with lots of microscopic stitches. I have scratches all over my cornea and I lost over half o
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A 38-year old asked:
How soon should one take tt vaccine after a cut or scratch injury?
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A 48-year old asked:
When i scratch my skin reacts ?
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A 44-year old asked:
After I have an injury a small bump that remains under the skin. What could that bump be?
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A 43-year old asked:
My chin hurts really bad because i scratched it hard because it was itchy is something wrong with my skin?
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A 34-year old asked:
Skin swelling up and it's puffy and itchy after I scratched it. But it was just a little bump and not a bug bite?
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A 23-year old female asked:
I caught eczema on last year.Due to this eczema i have more dark scratches on my skin.how i remove those scratches?
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A 28-year old female asked:
My son was born 12/12/12 ever since my skin is really itchy and when I scratch I break out in hives. Is this normal?
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A 27-year old female asked:
When I scratch or bump my skin,on any part of my body,a raised hot white itchy rash develops. What could cause this?
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A 20-year old female asked:
I have what seems like a pack of dead skin flakes on top of my vagina skin, its white, when dry and scratch it falls off but spreads more. Help.
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A 20-year old female asked:
When my skin gets wet, it gets really itchy. If I scratch it, all these tiny red dots start appearing. They fade after awhile and turn brown. What?
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A 51-year old female asked:
I am allergic/reactive to many things. A pen top dragged across skin causes welt for days. How can I get a skin test just the scratching will react?
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A member asked:
I have petechiae that show up whenever I scratch my skin too much. I've had it for a while but I've never gotten it looked at. Should I be concerned?
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A 22-year old female asked:
I have Tiny holes in the creases of my palms. They look like tons of tiny pin pricks. When tuned or scratched the skin easily comes off. What are they?
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A 48-year old female asked:
Why does my skin itch? my skin constantly itches and then when i scratch i break out in whelps this happens daily and at all different times of the day i take depression and anxiety meds and wondered if that could be the cause or if it could be more serio
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A 32-year old male asked:
How can I stop scratching my skin I need help pleez?
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A 47-year old asked:
Why does the skin on my neck burn when I scratch it?
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A 43-year old asked:
What does it mean if I have red spots on skin after scratching?
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A 36-year old asked:
Whenever i scratch my forehead (not hard) the skin always falls off. Why is my skin so sensitive?
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A 30-year old asked:
most of the times when i scratch myself or I just pluck my eyebrows ,my skin gets red bumps & itches?
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A 19-year old male asked:
Whenever i get a scratch from nail on my skin it becomes black ! I feel i have bad reaction to nail scratch?
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A 41-year old asked:
My skin can become very itchy throughout the day and when I scratch my skin will turn red and welt up this happens every day?
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A 40-year old male asked:
I feel like I got an itch under my skin top right shoulder, like when i move it or walk it feels itchy under it, workout injury? something else?
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A 34-year old asked:
i was suffering from eczema, and during those time i scratched my skin so much that i now have a lot of dark marks on my skin. can they be removed?
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A member asked:
4mo old baby have infected rash, already on antibiotics, but keeps scratching so skin takes longer to heal. What can I do to stop him scratching?
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A member asked:
several times a year i break out in odd rashes mostly on my chest neck and shoulders sometimes they look like scratches they are always accompanied by redness and swelling and tenderness of the skin and also with pimply looking things. i just broke out
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A 23-year old asked:
I scratched a pimple on my arm and the skin arround the wound tend to yellow. Is that alarming?
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