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The Effects of Itching on Your Skin

Itching is one of these sensations. It's sort of like yawning or there's a few other examples of behaviours that we don't really know why we do it but we can sort of have a bit of a guess and looking at evolution is often a useful way of guessing about these things. So what each does is it draws your attention to irritants on your skin. And the skin is so important to keeping infection out of your body. Any wounds that you have, even little abrasions can be a sight of entry for bacteria. By having this sort of itch scratch behaviour that's very finely tuned and sensitive means that we can dislodge anything that might otherwise be invading our skin barrier

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