Everyone’s felt the seemingly insatiable urge to scratch a wound as it heals. Everyone has felt it even when they were young. You do remember the first time you got wounded on your knee while playing with friends, right? It hurts at first then you get it treated and as the wound heals it starts to itch. This prompts the question why do wounds itch when they are healing?
Understanding Wounds
The key to understanding why wounds itch when they are healing is to understand the nature of a wound. The skin, being the largest organ of your body serves as a layer of your protection. And as such, it is exposed to a lot of stuff from your environment. As a result, we all have been wounded in various ways.
We get accidental cuts when we were kids playing, you burn yourself one time, or at times...



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