I had a very bad case of urticaria which resisted the usual remedies as Apis, Urtica ur.
Besides curing the urticaria the patient's health is in every way improving.
I gave her four powders more, and no appearance of urticaria since.
These have been described as resembling wheals of urticariaor herpetic or eczematous {873} vesicles (Bristowe).
Scheby-Buch has suggested that the urticaria may, with more propriety, be attributed to the gastric disturbances that so often accompany the forms of purpura presenting it.
Urticaria is of frequent occurrence, and sudden attacks of nausea, vomiting, and intestinal pain coincide with the appearance of the eruption on the skin.
It is a curious circumstance that an eruption of urticaria is reported to have appeared in one subject in whom a rupture of the sac into the peritoneal cavity is supposed to have occurred.
An eruption of urticaria has been observed to follow puncture with the trocar, and also aspiration, in a considerable proportion of the cases, but it has no special significance.
A well-marked urticaria frequently precedes acute rheumatism in a friend of the writer's; it may occur during its course or soon after the cessation of the pains.
The exciting causes of urticaria are gastric disorder, irritation of the mucous membrane, or a sudden nervous shock.
Acute urticaria is always preceded by febrile symptoms and the attack is indicated by a sudden congestion of the skin, followed by a slight swelling or elevation of the affected part.
The skin in some persons is so susceptible to irritation that urticaria can be kindled at any moment by excitement, as an animated conversation, or by the simple pressure of the hand.
The localized and fleeting oedema of urticaria and erythema, the swollen lip and tongue in connection with digestive disturbances, are not to be explained by the two main factors of oedema--viz.
An eruption resembling urticaria in the beginning is as innocent as erythema, but purpura in the latter stage is a symptom of mostly ominous nature.
Urticaria also is often of symmetrical development, is rarely accompanied by fever, and is characterized by typical wheals, which, however closely packed together, never have the smoothness of the surface affected with erysipelas.
The causes of urticaria are irritating juices of certain plants, secretions of flies, ants and some caterpillars, irritating drugs, scratching, sweating and the action of cold on a warm skin.
An important preventive measure is to avoid the use of agents capable of irritating the skin and producing urticaria when treating parasitic skin diseases.
Urticaria is characterized by roundish elevations that appear quickly and become scattered over a part or the whole surface of the skin.
Some of these lesions of the intestinal tract related to urticaria may affect, either primarily or secondarily, the biliary structures.
Patients who suffer from urticaria readily are almost sure to have other neurotic disturbances, and their intestines seldom escape.
Herpetic conditions resemble urticariain their response to mental conditions.
Footnote 32] An attack of urticaria and coryza followed by asthma has been noticed to come on within ten minutes of having stroked a cat.
Certain skin diseases, especially those allied to the urticaria group, are prone to occur in connection with excitement and worry.
While preparing for examinations or undergoing some physical trial or suffering from worry or anxiety such persons may have urticaria or even wheals on the skin.
Howsoever unimportant a single eruption of urticaria may be, it becomes disagreeable and troublesome by its constant repetition, which is not dangerous, but exceedingly disturbing.
These developments lead us to suspect that urticaria and pemphigus are identical in essence; this fact is richly substantiated by the homœopathic law which furnishes identical means of cure for either of these affections.
Prominent among the causes of urticaria are oysters, crabs, and other shell fish, strawberries, raspberries, and other fruits.
Veal has the reputation of being particularly indigestible, and the foregoing instance of the production of urticaria from its use is doubtless not an uncommon one.
There was another instance--in a member of the medical profession--who suffered from urticaria after eating veal.
The dermal manifestations, such as urticaria and eruptions resembling the exanthem of scarlatina, are too well known to need mention here.
Extensive urticaria covering most of the body also appeared, and the eyelids became edematous.
The symptoms of such attacks vary considerably in different individuals, but usually include pronounced urticaria along with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
And a hive (or urticaria or angioneurotic oedema) is not an inflammation.
Chronic urticaria and granular pharyngitis are not rare in gouty families.
Hay fever "has a pathology" if urticaria has a pathology, for urticaria, too, subsides and leaves no traces.
Then the dermatologist brought in a list of skin eruptions, urticaria in the lead, as examples of anaphylaxis to certain foods or to poisons generated within the body, especially in the intestines.
Food that one patient could eat with impunity brought out a beautiful eczema or urticaria on another patient.
Urticaria pigmentosa is a rare disease, variously viewed as an unusual form of urticaria and as an urticaria-like eruption in which there is an element of new growth in the lesions.
These [oe]dematous swellings occurring alone might be looked upon, as they are by most observers, as an independent affection, but its close relationship to ordinary urticaria is often evident.
Urticaria is an inflammatory affection characterized by evanescent whitish, pinkish or reddish elevations, or wheals, variable as to size and shape, and attended by itching, stinging or pricking sensations.
The prognosis of chronic urticaria is to be guarded, and will depend upon the ability to discover and remove or modify the predisposing condition.
Urticaria papulosa (formerly called lichen urticatus) is a variety in which the lesions are small and papular, developing usually out of the ordinary wheals.
Urticaria hæmorrhagica is characterized by lesions similar to ordinary wheals, except that they are somewhat hemorrhagic, partaking, in fact, of the nature of both urticaria and purpura.
From what diseases is urticaria to be differentiated?
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