Chronic urticaria differs from acute urticaria in characteristics and treatments. The chronic form is spontaneous or inducible, with the latter elicited by cold, heat, pressure, or other precipitants.

This article reviews the epidemiology, clinical manifestation, etiology, differential diagnosis, and treatment of PUPPP, one of the most common pruritic dermatoses in pregnant women.

Clues to Improving the Quality of Life of Patients With Chronic Urticaria — Comorbidities, angioedema, and poor guideline compliance all contribute to the current high burden ...

A healthy, adolescent boy is seen for recurrently awakening with pruritic, urticarial-like lesions between his upper thighs extending to his mid-thorax. Some lesions appear to be in a linear ...

However, due to mild shortness of breath, spreading lesions, and increasing pruritus, she presents to the emergency department on day 10 of urticaria onset (6 days after her positive COVID-19 test).

PUPPPS (aka Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy) is an itchy, bumpy rash often beginning on the pregnant abdomen (tending to spare the umbilicus and its surrounding area) then ...

This case report highlights an unusual presentation of Adult Still’s Disease (ASD), a rare systemic inflammatory disorder, in a 26-year-old woman who exhibited atypical skin symptoms without classical ...

Solar urticaria results after exposure to the sun or an artificial light source. The wheals of urticarial vasculitis often last longer than 24 hours, and vasculitis is demonstrated on histopathology.

A 9-year-old healthy boy presented to the clinic complaining of a three-day history of several moderately pruritic lesions on his lower legs. This was his third episode with similar lesions this ...

Current guidelines suggest limiting diagnostic testing for chronic spontaneous urticaria when no clear cause is suspected, though biomarkers and biopsies are emerging as tools to predict treatment ...

Development of prurigo nodules and excoriations, which are hard, itchy bumps Aquagenic urticaria and pruritus, though rare, highlight the complex and varied nature of allergic reactions.

The term "pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy" was initially proposed by Lawley in 1979. [2] Available literature from that time also refers to "toxemic erythema of pregnancy" and ...