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Skin Itching Generalized
Sign or symptom reference page from the Everyone Healthy database.
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- chest pain, pressure or pain spreading to the arm, jaw or back
- trouble breathing, blue lips, severe wheeze or choking
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- signs of severe dehydration, sepsis, high fever with worsening illness, or symptoms in a baby/young child that concern you
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Skin Itching Generalized
Itchy skin, also known as pruritus, is an uncomfortable, irritating sensation that makes you want to scratch.
Symptom classification
Body areaSkin
Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
47- Acute Renal Failure
- Alcoholic Liver Disease
- Anaphylactic Reaction
- Atopic Dermatitis (Eczema)
- Benign Hypertensive Arteriolar Nephrosclerosis
- Bile Duct Tumours
- Biliary Obstruction
- Bullous Pemphigoid
- Candidiasis
- Chickenpox
- Chronic Renal Failure
- Cutaneous Larva Migrans
- Cutaneous Paraneoplastic Syndromes
- Decompression Sickness
- Diabetes Type 2
- Diabetic Nephropathy
- Dipylidium Caninum Infection
- Dirofilariasis
- Erythema Multiforme
- Erythropoietic Protoporphyria
- Esophageal Varices
- Exfoliative Dermatitis
- Fascioliasis
- Hepatitis A
- Herpes Gestationis
- Hodgkin Lymphoma
- Hookworm Infection
- Ichthyosis
- Linear Immunoglobulin A Disease
- Loiasis
- Medullary Cystic Kidney Disease Complex
- Metastatic Liver Cancer
- Miliaria
- Mycetoma
- Mycosis Fungoides
- Neonatal Cholestasis
- Nummular Dermatitis
- Pemphigus Foliaceous
- Pityriasis Rubra Pilaris
- Polycythemia Vera
- Primary Liver Cancer
- Scabies
- Schistosomiasis
- Scleroderma Renal Disease
- Toxocariasis
- Urticaria
- Vitamin D Toxicity