Chronic inducible urticaria: Clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management

Abstract

Chronic inducible urticaria (CIndU) is a subtype of chronic urticaria characterized by recurrent itchy wheals and/or angioedema for more than 6 weeks. CIndU has a longer disease duration than chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) and wheals are shorter lasting than CSU. CIndU incudes physical and non-physical urticaria. Triggers and diagnosis of subtypes of CIndU differ from each other. Patient education for avoiding triggers is an important aspect of the treatment of CIndU. There is no significant difference in the treatment approach for CIndU and CSU. In this article, we have discussed different types of CIndU, their clinical features, diagnosis, and management.

Indian Journal of Skin Allergy: Journey of past 1 year

“…Can et al from the Department of Dermatology, Bahcesehir University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, and Emek Kocaturk from Koc University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, in collaboration with Daria Fomina, Center of Allergy and Immunology, Clinical State Hospital, Moscow provided their expert views on chronic inducible urticaria by reviewing the literature. [1] The article has provided a brief summary of different types of chronic inducible urticaria (e.g., symptomatic dermographism, cholinergic urticaria, cold urticaria, delayed pressure urticaria, solar urticaria, heat urticaria, aquagenic urticaria, vibratory urticaria, and contact urticaria) in the form of presentation and diagnosis. In the last section, the authors have summarized the treatment of chronic inducible urticaria.…”

“…The authors stress the need of tailor-made approach for the patients based on the type of chronic inducible urticaria. [1] In the second issue of the journal also, we received diversified articles in terms of their types. Review article, original articles, case series, case reports, and letter to editorial were published in this issue too.…”