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| allergy |
When you have an allergy to something like a plant or food, something bad happens to your body when you touch it or eat it or have some other contact with it. An allergy can make you sneeze, itch, cough, or make it hard for you to breathe. |
| athlete's foot |
a common foot infection caused by fungi. Athlete's foot makes the skin itch and look scaly. |
| chicken pox |
When you have chicken pox, you are sick. It is a disease that gives you a fever and spots on your body. The fever lasts a few days, but the spots take longer to go away, and they itch. Children get chicken pox more often than adults do. |
| hives |
(used with a singular or plural verb) a mild disease that causes small bumps on the skin that itch. Hives are often the result of an allergy. |
| itch |
An itch is a feeling on some part of your skin that makes you want to rub or scratch it. [2/5 definitions] |
| scratch |
to relieve an itch by scraping or digging at with the nails or claws. [1/7 definitions] |
| scratchy |
When something is scratchy, it has tiny, sharp points that can scratch your skin just a little. Sometimes a label in the back of your shirt is a little scratchy. It can make your skin itch or feel bad. [1/2 definitions] |
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