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Vagus Nerve Effects on Allergies, Asthma and Eczema

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The Effects of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Eczema

Sally Kohn: Is there a specific pathway that we can talk about regarding that you feel an itch you want to scratch it type of. Well, I will frame it in the phone because it's really interesting. We began using biggest nerve stimulation on her for her headaches and for other things, but also we found that it rapidly affected the topic dermatitis slash eczema that she was experiencing. So what it was doing was by stimulating the vagus nerve,. which is we all talk about is in the neck. It's on its way up to the brain that that stimulation went right into the brain where the itch happened.

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