Dysesthesia

Clinic

• Dysesthesia is a generic term for a cutaneous symptom--such as pruritus, burning, tingling, stinging, anesthesia, hypoesthesia, tickling, crawling, cold sensation, or even pain--without a primary cutaneous condition in a well-defined location that is often caused by nerve trauma, impingement, or irritation.
• The characteristic symptom is back pruritus that is accompanied by Pain, Paresthesia / Hyperesthesia which results in hyperpigmentation.

Related Disease

• Scalp dysesthesia
• Trigeminal trophic syndrome
• Meralgia paresthetica
• Notalgia paresthetica
• Brachioradial pruritus
• MS

Most of these are caused by neural injury except Notalgia paresthetica which is a common chronic sensory neuropathy which is presented with localized itch, affecting mainly the area between the shoulder blades (especially the T2–T6 dermatomes) but occasionally with a more widespread distribution, involving the shoulders, back, and upper chest.

Miasms

• GSS
• HTLV-1
• LCM
• LSSV
• NVCJD
• SAHF
• SHBV