Irritation as a medical symptom refers to a physical inflammation, skin reaction, or similar symptom. The most common type is skin irritation, but there are also many types of inflammation (e.g. joint inflammation). For mental irritation, see the causes of irritability (e.g. moodiness). Irritation of the skin may include skin rash, inflammation, skin reactions, skin lesions, blisters, eczema, dry skin, and similar symptoms.
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- Eczema: Eczema is a chronic skin condition causing recurring rashes. The skin rashes are often blistery, weeping, crusting, scaling and itchy
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- Inflammation: Inflammation, or an inflammatory reaction, refers to a body process involving various substances that attempt to repair damage. An inflammation
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- Joint inflammation: Joint inflammation is an inflammatory reaction inside any of the body’s joints. Symptoms typically include joint pain, joint swelling
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- Irritability: Irritability is a mental symptom of “feeling irritable”, which is a mild form of annoyance, frustration, and anger. There are
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- Moodiness: Moodiness is the symptom of recurring bouts of abnormal moods, usually referring to depressive moods or irritability. True cycles of
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