INTRODUCTION Psychosocial factors have been implicated as being important in the onset and/or exacerbation of urticaria. AIM To examine both personality factors of patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU) and the correlations between illness duration, severity of itching, urticaria activity score (UAS) and temperament-character dimensions. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total number of 70 C...

Lichen planus (LP) skin lesions are often accompanied by itch, but this symptom has not been thoroughly examined in LP. To better characterize itch in LP, 78 patients with LP were investigated. Itch was present in 94.9% of patients and was usually described as the most vexing symptom of LP. The mean?±?SD severity of itch according to visual analogue scale score was 6.9?±?2.8 points. Most patien...

Tinea corporis is a fungal infection of the body caused by Dermatophytes. characterised circinate eruptions, itching, burning, soreness and secondary infections. This case represents Corporis treated with homoeopathic remedy Mercurius Solubilis, A 47 year old male came in our OPD on 14/11/2023 complaints papulovesicular ring shaped eruption thigh which spread all over mostly trunk. Intense itch...

BACKGROUND Symptom relief for the duration of 24 hours after treatment would benefit patients with allergic conjunctivitis. OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and efficacy of olopatadine 0.77% with vehicle or olopatadine 0.2% in patients with allergic conjunctivitis in a conjunctival allergen-challenge clinical study. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this Phase III, multicenter, double-masked, parallel...

Herpes zoster most commonly occurs in elderly patients, and usually affects sensory neurons. Therefore, its characteristic symptoms are segmental pain, itching, and sensory changes in the affected areas. A 71-yr-old woman experienced painful herpetic rash on the right cervical 2-4 dermatomes for 16 days. Two days after the onset of the rash, she was diagnosed with herpes zoster, and prescribed ...

Sunburn, wound repair, and chronic renal failure with hemodialysis are usually accompanied by both pigmentation and itching. Proopiomelanocortin-derived α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) is produced in response to external stimuli, such as UV irradiation, and is involved in cutaneous pigmentation. However, it is unclear whether α-MSH is also involved in the itching. We therefore investig...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and duration of action of once-daily dosing with alcaftadine 0.25% ophthalmic solution and olopatadine 0.2% ophthalmic solution as compared with placebo in the prevention of ocular itching, and to directly compare the efficacy of alcaftadine 0.25% with olopatadine 0.2% in the prevention of ocular itching associated with allergic ...

abstract this study scrutinized the interaction between linguistic and strategic variables in reading comprehension test performance of iranian efl learners. to this end, the interaction among the participants’ reading comprehension test performance, use of test-taking strategies, and level of language proficiency was analyzed. the participants comprised 286 students who answered a reading comp...