Chronic Urticaria: Boost Antihistamine Dosage.(Brief Article)

Family Practice News;  March 1, 2001 ;     585 words ......aren't enough to relieve symptoms of chronic urticaria, so many physicians are tempted to...effective. But that dose fails to relieve chronic urticaria in as many as half of patients treated...30, or 40 mg/day for adults with chronic urticaria. Loratadine's biggest disadvantage...

Use of patch testing for identifying allergen causing chronic urticaria

Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......cases while this figure is much lower for chronic urticaria. Chronic urticaria has multifactorial etiologies including...infectious diseases etc. Approximately 50% of chronic urticaria cases remain unexplained and are categorized...

Identifying pathogenic mechanisms will help treat chronic urticaria

Dermatology Times;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......What distinguishes chronic urticaria - both autoimmune and...to Alien Kaplan, M.D., chronic urticaria is defined as spontaneously...regularly, and their use in chronic urticaria is quite different from...

House dust mite sensitivity is a factor in chronic urticaria

Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION Chronic urticaria is one of the perplexing problems faced by clinicians. Chronic urticaria is defined as daily or almost daily...implicated house dust mite sensitivity in chronic urticaria based on intradermal skin testing...

New findings on chronic urticaria refine screening, improve outcomes.(Skin...

Family Practice News;  March 15, 2008 ;     424 words ...SAN ANTONIO -- Treatment of chronic urticaria can be challenging, but recent findings...from 55% to 86% in patients with chronic urticaria. There is an additional factor in...and it's now been shown that in chronic urticaria, there is increased thrombin formation...

When to Refer Familial Hives.

OB GYN News;  June 1, 2000 ;     250 words ...Familial chronic urticaria is associated with thyroid...autoimmunity in patients with chronic urticaria, Dr. Carl Lauter an allergist...him by an endocrinologist for chronic urticaria. Her hives persisted despite...

New antibody further demarcates chronic, acute urticaria

Dermatology Times;  August 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......in up to one-half of patients with chronic urticaria. This finding has led, in turn, to...healthy patients with unexplained chronic urticaria, according to Allen P. Kaplan, M...Charleston. "We found that the sera of chronic urticaria patients bind to an alpha subunit...

New advances refine chronic urticaria screening.(News)

Skin & Allergy News;  April 1, 2008 ;     576 words ...SAN ANTONIO -- Treatment of chronic urticaria can be challenging, but recent findings...increased from 55% in patients with chronic urticaria to 86%. There is an additional factor...and it's now been shown that in chronic urticaria there is increased thrombin formation...

Chronic Urticaria.

American Family Physician;  March 15, 1999 ;     183 words ......Approximately one half of all patients with chronic urticaria experience angioedema, which may...compromise of the airway. Most cases of chronic urticaria are believed to be autoimmune-related...this benign condition. Patients with chronic urticaria should avoid using angiotensin ...

New assay takes sting out of chronic urticaria.(Clinical Rounds)

Skin & Allergy News;  April 1, 2007 ;     606 words ......of our patients with recurrent or chronic urticaria appear to resolve in about 6 months...of a child with steroid-dependent chronic urticaria who was found to have these antibodies...Boguniewicz said, although patients with chronic urticaria may need much higher than usual doses...

Urticaria possible symptom of serious illness

Dermatology Times;  February 1, 2001 ;     261 words ......chronic, lasting more than six weeks. "Chronic urticaria is complex, given the vast number...a potential important trigger for chronic urticaria," Dr. Goodman said. According to...guidelines were based, the duration of chronic urticaria cannot be predicted. Spontaneous...

Additive-induced urticaria: Experience with monosodium glutamate (MSG)

The Journal of Nutrition;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......MSG)1 ABSTRACT In patients with chronic urticaria, the incidence of reactions to any...including MSG, in patients with chronic urticaria using a rigorous protocol. We studied...including tartrazine, in patients with chronic urticaria and angioedema is unknown. This is...

Urticaria and angioedema: a practical approach.

American Family Physician;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......patients with acute urticaria, but chronic urticaria can persist for months or years...study, 47 percent of patients with chronic urticaria of unknown etiology had spontaneous...urticaria also is differentiated from chronic urticaria by ongoing or longstanding urticarial...

New assay helps in the diagnosis of urticaria.(Dermatology)

Internal Medicine News;  June 1, 2007 ;     611 words ......of our patients with recurrent or chronic urticaria appear to resolve in about 6 months...Boguniewicz said, although patients with chronic urticaria may need much higher than usual doses...important to remember that patients with chronic urticaria can occasionally have underlying...

Classification and treatment of urticaria: a brief review.(Disease...

Dermatology Nursing;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......chronic. As opposed to acute urticaria, chronic urticaria is defined by recurrent episodes...identifiable environmental trigger. All chronic urticaria implicitly goes through an acute...Autoimmune and Idiopathic Urticaria Chronic urticaria occurs in about 0.1% of the population...