FEBRILE URTICARIA

Febrile urticaria in a family: uncommon manifestation of a common disease.

Cutaneous manifestations are uncommon with malaria. These include urticaria, purpura fulminans, and petechial rash. We report on a series of three patients from a single family who had an urticarial rash with fever that was subsequently diagnosed to be caused by malaria. Urticarial rash has been previously reported with both falciparum and vivax malaria infections. Although the exact pathogenes...

[Urticaria].

ma are cutaneous manifestations of localized edema. They are common skin diseases that typically result from the same pathophysiologic processes. The primary difference between the disorders is that urticaria is associated with localized edema involving the upper dermis, whereas angioedema is associated with localized edema involving deeper layers of the skin, as well as subcutaneous and submuc...

Urticaria

Factitious Urticaria

sensitive as to resent the slightest irritation, appears, perhaps, more surprising than that the gastric mucous membrane should occasionally be subject to intense excitement at the presence of various articles of food. We seem to expect the skin to resist pressure and irritation as one of its functions, and are therefore surprised when the phenomena of factitious urticaria occur. There is no do...

Chronic urticaria.