The aim of this Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA(2)LEN) consensus report is to provide recommendations and suggestions for assessing patient-reported outcomes (PROs) including health-related quality of life in patients with urticaria. We recommend that PROs should be used both in clinical trials and routine practice for the evaluation of urticaria patients. We suggest that PROs sh...

BACKGROUND: Chronic urticaria is a debilitating disease that considerably affects health-related quality of life, and the Chronic Urticaria Quality of Life Questionnaire is the only questionnaire specifically designed for its evaluation. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the quality of life of patients with chronic urticaria, using the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Chronic Urticaria Quality of Lif...

In the last few decades, increasing understanding of the pathomechanisms involved in chronic urticaria has highlighted the heterogeneity of different subtypes, and chronic urticaria is now classified as chronic spontaneous urticaria and inducible urticaria. Although many factors are thought to be involved in chronic urticaria, the etiology is yet to be clarified. The purpose of this study was t...

BACKGROUND: Chronic urticaria is a skin disease characterized by the appearance of itchy weals and/or angioedema for 6 or more weeks. subdivided into chronic spontaneous urticaria, which occurs due to an unknown cause, and inducible as result exposure various physical factors (water, cold, heat, pressure, mechanical irritation), can occur simultaneously independently each other. Omalizumab, ant...

chronic urticaria is defined as a skin disease with central induration (wheal) and erythema formation around it (flare) that appears at least twice a week and remains at least for 6 weeks continually. the incidence of urticaria in children is about 0.1-3%. most cases of chronic urticaria occur in children between 6-11 years. autoimmune and allergy immaturity is one of the reasons of lower incid...

chronic urticaria is the most common skin diseases, characterized by chronic cutaneous lesions which severely debilitates patients in several aspects of their everyday life. vitamin d is known to exert several actions in the immune system and to influence function and differentiation of mast cells, central role players in the pathogenesis of chronic idiopathic urticaria. this study was performe...

Chronic Urticaria (CU) is a skin disorder characterized by wheal and flare with duration of more than 6 weeks affecting 1%-2% the population (more common in women). Thirty to 35% cases CU have angioedema [1]. The etiology chronic spontaneous urticarial not usually clear, 40%-50% are idiopathic 30%-40% autoimmune [2, 3]. Quality life disturbed which has direct relation severity [4].

Urticaria is a common condition that occurs in both children and adults. Most cases have no specific allergic trigger and the aetiology of urticaria remains idiopathic and occasionally spontaneous in nature. Inappropriate advice such as avoidance of foods (milk, egg, prawn, and brinjal) is common place in certain sections of India mostly by nonspecialists that should not be routinely recommende...

Saira Zafar1*, Erin McGintee2, Alan Wolff1, Arthur Torre1 and Steven E Schutzer1 Author Affiliations 1Rutgers New Jersey School of Medicine, Allergy Immunology, USA 2Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Received: February 07, 2022 | Published: 22, Corresponding author: Zafar, Rutgers Jersey, DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2022.42.006698