The causes of itchy skin on the body are more varied and can be caused by infectious skin diseases, physical skin diseases, allergic skin diseases, neurological dysfunctional skin diseases and herpes skin diseases.
1. Infectious skin diseases: viral skin diseases, such as chickenpox, measles, warts, etc.; bacterial skin diseases such as impetigo, folliculitis; fungal skin diseases, such as ringworm, tinea capitis, tinea corporis, tinea versicolor, etc., which can lead to localized skin rashes, accompanied by itchy symptoms.
2. Physical skin diseases: such as prickly heat, mainly because the weather is too hot, excessive sweating and skin diseases, can also lead to pinpoint-sized pimples and itching; in addition, polymorphic sun rash, solar dermatitis, and frictional mossy rashes, etc. can cause itching of the skin.
3. Allergic skin diseases: such as contact dermatitis, eczema, atopic dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, drug rash, urticaria, etc., these skin diseases can also cause itching symptoms.
4. Neurological dysfunction skin diseases: such as pruritus, nodular itchy rash, pregnancy itchy rash, mossy dermatitis, etc., of which pruritus is a kind of skin disease that only has itchy skin without primary skin lesions.
5. Herpes skin diseases: such as herpes-like dermatitis, herpetic pemphigoid, herpes gestationis and palmoplantar pustulosis, etc., these diseases can lead to localized skin herpes-like lesions, accompanied by itching and pain and other uncomfortable symptoms.
So when the body skin itchy symptoms, should be timely to the hospital, a clear diagnosis, follow the doctor’s instructions standardized treatment.