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Living with Itch Gil Yosipovitch (Professor)

Living with Itch By Gil Yosipovitch (Professor)

Living with Itch by Gil Yosipovitch (Professor)


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Summary

Patient and parent narratives illustrate how people cope with itch and how, with medical and social support, itch can be managed.

Living with Itch Summary

Living with Itch: A Patient's Guide by Gil Yosipovitch (Professor)

We have all experienced itch, whether from insect bites or dry skin, but millions of people worldwide have chronic or even intractable itch. Just like chronic pain, chronic itch interferes with a person's ability to function-and even affects quality of life. Living with Itch offers relief, drawing on the authors' vast knowledge of itch, the suffering it causes, and available treatments. Itch researchers and clinicians Drs. Gil Yosipovitch and Shawn G. Kwatra explain the cascade of physiological events that causes us to experience itch. They describe the many skin diseases, from atopic dermatitis (eczema) to psoriasis, and conditions like chronic kidney disease, lymphoma, HIV, and neuropathies that cause itch. Living with Itch provides information on preventing itch as well as topical and systemic ways to treat it. Patient and parent narratives illustrate how people cope with itch and how, with medical and social support, itch can be managed.

Living with Itch Reviews

Those seeking support, information, and relief will benefit from this forthright guide. Publisher's Weekly Yosipovitch's openness to holistic treatment comes from the recognition that in some cases, itch is truly all in the mind. Damaged nerve fibers cause the brain to misinterpret signals as itch. Then other psychological factors such as depression and anxiety intensify the problem. -- Marie McCullough Philly.com

About Gil Yosipovitch (Professor)

Gil Yosipovitch, M.D., is a professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology and director of the Temple Itch Center at Temple University School of Medicine. He is known as the Godfather of Itch and is the founder of the International Forum for the Study of Itch. Shawn G. Kwatra, M.D., is a resident in the Department of Dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Jeffrey D. Bernhard, M.D.
Preface
A Patient's Perspective.: Eczema: A Lifelong Conflict
Part I: Definitions and Mechanisms of Itch
1. What Is Itch?
2. What Causes Itch?
Part II: Difference Forms of Itch
A Parent's Perspective.: An Unexpected Life
3. Atopic Dermatitis
A Patient's Perspective.: From Double Helix to Dermis: The Menacing Morse Code of Psoriatic Itch
4. Psoriasis
A Patient's Perspective.: Cutaneous Lymphoma Itch
5. Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma
6. Chronic Urticaria
7. Neuropathic Itch
8. Itch Associated with Autoimmune Disorders
9. Itch Associated with Infections
10. Itch Associated with Systemic Disorders
11. Unique Types of Itch
12. Psychogenic Itch
Part III: Treating Itch
13. Preventing Itch without Medications
14. Topical Treatments for Itch
15. Systemic Treatment for Itch
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Resources: Associations for People with Specific Skin Conditions
Index

Additional information

GOR008214653
9781421412337
1421412330
Living with Itch: A Patient's Guide by Gil Yosipovitch (Professor)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Johns Hopkins University Press
20131225
160
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