What is the cause of pruritus

Skin itching is a very common kind of skin disease, the impact of the disease on the patient is very large, not only itching intolerable, if not timely treatment will give patients a lot of discomfort, causing skin itching is also a lot of reasons, Like endocrine disorders, gastrointestinal diseases, neurological diseases will cause skin itching, the following look at the relevant introduction.
(1) visceral disease, gastrointestinal liver and kidney and other organs or functional or organic disease, especially diabetes, uremia, liver disease patients often have generalized itching; some tumors such as leukemia, lymphosarcoma, He Jie Jin's disease, mycosis fungoides and malignant lymphoma and other patients with skin itching.

(2) neuropsychiatric disorders, cerebral arteriosclerosis, spinal tuberculosis, neurasthenia can also occur systemic or limited local skin itching, clinically common neurosis patients have some illusion that the skin has insects and feel Itchy, and some develop scratching habits.
(3) endocrine disorders, some women often have pruritus during pregnancy, usually in the postpartum disappearance, menstrual disorders or ovarian disease often cause female genital itching, the elderly skin itching may be related to decreased levels of sex hormones, thyroid disease patients Can also have pruritus.
(4) external causes: skin itching external causes can cause general or limited local itching, temperature changes often cause skin itching, winter pruritus and summer pruritus patients are extremely sensitive to changes in climate, bedding is too hot, suddenly heated Or the case of cold may cause itching attack.
Above is caused by the cause of skin itching, we can see the cause of skin itching is a lot of reasons, if you do not want to be troubled by the skin itching should avoid the above causes and infection, and the first time outside, we found that they have skin Itching time must be timely to the hospital for treatment, so as not to worsen the disease.