Contents:
- Medical Video: Allergy Advice : How to Stop Itching From Mold Allergies
- What is the formation?
- Formation characteristics
- What are the causes of itching hallucinations?
- Care for formations
- Complications that may occur due to itching hallucinations
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Have you ever felt like something was moving around your feet? Like itching or tingling, but when you see it, there is nothing on your feet. If yes, you may experience formations. Check out this article to find out more about the formations.
What is the formation?
Formation is itching or tingling from feeling that an insect is crawling above or inside your skin. Formation comes from the Latin wordFormica which means ant.
Formation is tactile hallucinations, which means a person feels a physical sensation, but there is no physical cause. This sensation can cause itching, which may get worse at night and can be severe enough to affect your daily activities.
The itchy sensation on the skin without physical stimulation is a type of paresthesia that may also include burning, tingling, numbness and cold.
Formation characteristics
The sign or main symptom of formation is feeling like an insect crawling above or under the skin. This feeling also causes itching. This will make you scratch the skin where you feel the sensation, even if there is no real cause of itching.
Scratching to satisfy itching can cause skin damage and open sores. These open sores can become infected and lead to other conditions, such as skin ulcers or wounds that get worse.
What are the causes of itching hallucinations?
Some conditions that can cause formations include:
- Parkinson's disease
- Shingles
- Fibromyalgia
- Anxiety
- Perimenopause
- Lyme disease
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Skin cancer
- Schizophrenia
It is possible that lower estrogen levels during perimenopause and menopause can also cause this condition.
Formation also sometimes occurs when a person will stop taking medication, including opioids. Some drugs that can cause formations during quitting are ritalin, lunesta, opioid pain medications (such as codeine or morphine), some antidepressants (such as SSRIs), tramadol, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.
Formation caused by withdrawal symptoms is usually temporary and must be treated after recovering from drug addiction.
If the sensation continues or occurs very often, this can be caused by drug psychosis. This can cause you to believe that an insect is actually not on the skin.
Care for formations
Care for formations will depend on the cause. Topical creams such as hydrocortisone can reduce itching for some people. You can also apply moisturizer to the skin, to help keep the skin healthy and hydrated.
If the cause of the formulation is Parkinson's disease, herpes zoster, or fibromyalgia, the doctor will prescribe the right medication and will make a long-term treatment plan.
If the drug is the cause, doctors can usually recommend alternatives. Sometimes, antihistamines like Zyrtec or Benadryl can help reduce the sensation of formations.
If the form is related to drug use, stop and seek professional help to get out of drugs so that symptoms can be resolved.
Complications that may occur due to itching hallucinations
People who experience this itchy hallucinations will scratch the skin continuously. This can injure and destroy the skin, so it is very possible for bacteria to enter and cause infection.
In addition, injuries from scratching may also cause some other complications such as gangrene, tetanus, fever, lack of blood, or sepsis.
Other complications include:
- Fatigue
- Frustration
- Poor sleep quality
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Difficult to concentrate
