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The team also found that scratching worsens inflammation, therefore fuelling an “itch-scratch cycle” that could explain why scratching an itch feels good, but makes us scratch more.

Scratching an itch is almost irresistible — even though it can make a problem worse. Now researchers have discovered a mechanism that explains the "itch-scratch cycle".

Watching someone scratch makes you itchy; worrying about something pruritogenic, like a tick crawling on you, makes you itchy; focusing on how itchy you are when you are itchy makes you itchier.