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Can you get a brain injury from scratching around your temple region? i
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No: no brain injury from scratching around your temples
Answered 5/31/2015
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No: Scratching your skin surface around the temple region will not cause brain injury.
Answered 5/31/2015
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No: The brain is encased inside your skull, a very thick bone relatively speaking bone that would prevent any "trauma" that you mention having any effect on your brain.
Answered 5/31/2015
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NOP: THE BRAIN , THE MOST POWERFUL ORGAN IN THE UNIVERSE IS PROTECTED SO WELL BY SKIN, FAT, SUCONNECTIVE TISSUE, SKULL, DURA MATTER, CEREBROSPINAL FLUID, PIA MATTER, ETCCCC WE NOT GOING INT ANATOMY OF HEAD, SKULL AND BRAIN, BUT IF YOU SCRATCH TEMPORAL AREA YOU CAN GET SUPERFICIAL INFECTION IF THE PRETECTIVE BARRIERS IS COMPROMISED. THIS MAY LEAD TO SECONDARY INFECTION. HOWEVER SEVERE BLUNT TRAUMA CAN
Answered 4/3/2016
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No: You cannot injur your brain from scratching the skin, unless you cause an infection that spreads to a blood infection, a very unlikely occurrence.
Answered 11/27/2017
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