Can stress cause skin irritations?

My neck keeps breaking out in dry itchy patches and I'm thinking maybe it's stress.

Can stress cause skin irritations?
Eczema(skin irritation) can flare up when you are under stress. Learn how to recognize and cope with stress. Stress reduction techniques can help. Changing your activities to reduce daily stress can also be helpful
Reply:Yup, you've probably got hives- which are VERY related to stress.
Reply:it's possible
Reply:yes. hives, whelps, and rashes.
Reply:Yes skin reacts to stress in a lot of ways; hives, rashes etc...usually you just have to apply some cream or calamine lotion. Sometimes your doctor can prescribe steroids that will help.
Reply:yes. my friend always gets those too from stress. i always get zits when i'm stressed.
Reply:yeah so get stress off yo mind and hit me up so i can telll you what to do to get stress off your mind
Reply:Stress can cause almost any physical ailment you can think of.
Reply:last time my neck did that , I was using a new face cleanser not even on my neck, but my neck is where I reacted. when I stopped washing my face with it , my neck quit doing that.
Reply:are you in a cold place? wearing a heavy coat esp wool may be rubbing you.


I get cronic winter skin on my legs due to the dryness of running a heater. I use a humidfider to help put moister back into the air. Try Useing Sally Hanson dry skin remover(find around nail polish section at cvs drugs. white and orange packaging. ) Have your skin dry and rub till it feels better then


take warm shower and dry off then try a good quality lotion or johonson creamy baby lotion really helps me I have tried around 30 lotions and this is the best value and works well.


do this a few times then weekly and see if its better. if not try going to the DR to get something stronger.
Reply:Absolutely.... Use moisturizers daily and 1 valium, that's what I did and it went away... It's easier than shooting your spouse...
Reply:Yes stress is the bigest enemy of our health.
Reply:In higher organisms the allergic response may be cause of irritation. An allergen is defined distinctly from an irritant, however, as allergy requires a specific interaction with the immune system and is thus dependant on the (possibly unique) sensitivity of the organism involved while an irritant, classically, acts in a non-specific manner.





In humans, it is a mild form of suffering, often with anger about this, in particular, if applicable, anger at the person who caused it. This can also be oneself, e.g. when forgetting something or doing something one deems to be stupid.





It is a form of stress, but conversely, if one is stressed by unrelated matters, mild imperfections can cause more irritation than usual, one is irritable; see also sensitivity (human).





In more basic organisms, assigning irritation the status of pain is the perception of the being stimulated - which is not observable although it may be shared (see gate control theory of pain).