Contact urticaria is a fairly common skin condition that occurs after coming into contact with an irritant. Learn about symptoms, causes, treatment, and more.

Contact urticaria from spices is relatively common. [10,11] The immunologic variant is IgE mediated and is treated with avoidance and antihistamines. The mechanism of the nonimmunologic variant is ...

Other CIndU subtypes are cholinergic urticaria, contact urticaria, and aquagenic urticaria. The duration of chronic urticaria varies significantly by subtype, ...

You can be allergic to water. However, it is an extremely rare condition. Aquagenic urticaria (water allergy) causes painful hives when the skin comes into contact with water. If you have this ...

People with aquagenic urticaria develop red, itchy hives and welts when their body comes in contact with water during a ...

Aquagenic urticaria is an extremely rare type of hives (raised, itchy rash) triggered by contact with water. Some people call aquagenic urticaria "water allergy." Urticaria is the medical term for ...

Aquagenic urticaria is a form of hives triggered by contact with water. We'll explain its symptoms and how to treat this rare skin condition.

Urticaria is a clinical diagnosis, and the guideline strongly recommends against the use of a routine diagnostic workup in acute urticaria, which is defined by a duration of 6 weeks or less.

Douglas Powell, MD specializes in the treatment of allergic contact dermatitis, dermatitis, and urticaria/hives. He is board certified in dermatology and is a member of the American Academy of ...

Dr. Lily Hwang of Atlanta Allergy & Asthma said urticaria is a common skin condition that can be caused by something you ingest, such as food or medicine, or something you’ve come in contact ...

Two categories of contact urticaria have been noted: (1) immunologic, which is immunoglobulin-E (IgE) mediated, and (2) nonimmunologic, which is likely mediated by other inflammatory mediators, ...