OJani wrote:
OMG, there would be no skin soon with such a machine...
And aren't you curious what would happen once there is no more skin left? Will the region below the skin continue to itch? Aren't you curious to find out just how deep does the "itchinnes" penetrates? and if you dig deeper and keep removing more and more stuff below the skin, will it stop itching since you end up removing the "entire" itching region? Or, on the other hand, if it will continue to itch, will you still enjoy it? On the one hand, once there is no more skin, the scratching would be very painful. But, on the other hand, pain is precisely what you enjoy when you itch. So perhaps you will LIKE the fact that scratching will be so painful due to no skin being left?
Another interesting thing to research is whether the blood below the itching spot will look the same as the blood below some other random spot on the body. If the itching part was red, will the blood perhaps be more rich in color and more pronounced? Or will it be the opposite: perhaps its color will be "dilutted" due to the lymph it is mixed with; after all, sometimes there is a lymph on the irritated skin due to the allergic reaction.
It might be also interesting to go get a blood test and ask a doctor to analyze TWO samples of blood: one sample from the normal spot that they take it from, and the other sample from the itching spot. Then doctor can analyze whether or not the blood below the itching spot is completely different from the one below the normal spot. It might be also interesting to analyze both blood and skin samples under the microscope and see just how did their structure had changed that made them so itchy?
I have a fungal infection on the skin of my foot. I have heard that it is not an accident that it is called "fungus" and mushrooms are "fungi" as well. Microscopically fungus infection DOES look like mushrooms. I really wish I had a microscope so I could look up exact shape of the mushrooms on my foot and exactly how deep their roots go through my skin and exactly how they change skin structure; and, of course, take a blood test from my FOOT and see what it will show.
Sometimes I have a fantasy: what if the athlets foot is left untreated for a long time, so that the mashrooms eventually grow so large that they can become visible ... and then I can pick them up, cook them, and eat them. And compare their taste to the taste of the kinds of mushrooms one would buy in the store. By the way I like friend mushrooms, thats my favorite dish. I wonder how the fried foot fungi would taste.