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Lightning comes in, flashes through the windows.

You're all huddled around the fire and you get that Itchy feeling on the back of your neck.

You're being watched.

Something's behind you.

Yeah.

Pruritus, itchiness.

Itchiness.

What do we need to know about itchiness? How do I tackle a case? The owner's coming in, my dog's itchy.

Now, let's get to it.

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a podcast exploring all things allergy, asthma, and immunology.

So we have a 49-year-old.

I gave the pharmacist three quick questions that would help them get to the right answer.

And so the first is, does it itch? So you can ask the patient, are they itchy? Second question is, do they have a fever? And the third question is, how long do these symptoms last and does it keep coming back? Here we have a quick clip from our first pharmacist, Dr.

Ahuti Lakhani, who is from London, and she talks about the itch.

Is it

And you can try all of the things that we discussed with the moisturizers and the lubrications.

But if that itchiness is not resolving, this is when we would want to investigate to make sure that nothing else is going on.

Itchiness sometimes can be an infection.

Some sort of infection is going on that's causing the irritation and the itchiness.

But there's also something that is less common called lichen sclerosis.

And you can try all of the things that we discussed with the moisturizers and the lubrications.

But if that itchiness is not resolving, this is when we would want to investigate to make sure that nothing else is going on.

Itchiness sometimes can be an infection.

All right, your question.

Pruritus, pruritus, is the scientific term for which? Dandruff, scabs, itching, or a runny nose.

Pruritus.

Lori- loritis?

Pruritus.

Uh.

P-R-U-R-I-T-U-S. Pruritus.

Is it scabs?

I was reading a little bit about this in an unofficial, um, kinda history of the series, uh, uh, of, of Resident Evil.

The book is called Itchy Tasty, if anyone wants to look into that.

Um-

Oh, no

"Fever gone, but itchy.

Today hungry and eat doggy food." May 21st, 1998.

"Itchy, itchy.

Scott came ugly face, so killed him.

Or even, "How do you like the products?" You might not, they'd be like, "They're good." Like, you have to use the, you have to follow up with the things that you're gonna get actual information from them.

So, like, if they left and their skin is really itchy and you say, ask them how their skin is feeling, and they say, "Itchy," that's great information for you to retain that client.

Yes.

It's the client that you want.