One of the topics that piqued my interest is the process on how the integumentary system maintains homeostasis specifically through wound healing. Collagen, a product of the red blood cells serves as the basis for new tissue. Following this, the new tissue would begin to swell up the incision, resulting to a new skin that grow over this tissue. In this regard, the edges of the wound shrink as it heals and pulls inward. In learning this concept, I have suddenly recalled a lot of instances wherein I was wounded. As a child, there were numerous times wherein I tend to scratch them to ease the itch, and at the same time, tearing them feels oddly satisfying. Then, I would get irritated as the wound would not disappear as the skin just keeps on regrowing. The same case with pimples, on how I tend to pop them but then on the other day, there’s still a new one to pierce. With this, I came up with a realization wherein picking at a scab or scratching a wound might damage the new skin cells that the body generates to treat a wound. Scratching the itch could cause further damage, delay healing, and worse, develop permanent scars.