Skin Reactivity during the Menstrual Cycle

Hansen-Pruss, O. C.; Rami, Raymond

doi:10.1210/jcem-2-3-161

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“…Studies to date report conflicting data. The first studies by H. Pruss and Raymond in the 1940s, reported maximal reactivity to allergens on day 3 and 18 ofthe cycle [19] and using the P-K passive transfer test, demonstrated the highest titres of reagins on day 3. In the 1970s, Ozkarogor and Cakin reported that 70 of 246 skin-test reactions (23%) with allergens were significantly greater during menses (i.e.…”

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Influence of the menstrual cycle on skin‐prick test reactions to histamine, morphine and allergen

Kalogeromitros

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Armenaka

et al. 1995

Clin Experimental Allergy

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The purpose of this study was to examine the possible influence of the phases of the menstrual cycle on dermal reactivity to skin-prick testing. We studied 15 atopic, menstruating women with seasonal rhinoconjunctivitis and/or asthma, with known sensitivity to olive and parietaria (mean age 25.2 years) and 15 non-atopic, healthy, female controls (mean age 24.7 years). Skin-prick tests with histamine, morphine, and in the atopic group with parietaria/and/or olive, were repeated three times during the same menstrual cycle, corresponding to bleeding (day 1-4), midcycle (day 12-16) and the late progesterone phase (day 24-28). None of the patients had received oral antihistamines or exogenous hormones for at least 1 month prior to testing. Results indicate a significant increase in weal-and-flare size to histamine, morphine, and parietaria on days 12-16 of the cycle, corresponding to ovulation and peak oestrogen levels. This was observed in both atopic and non-atopic women. Differences in skin reactivity to histamine and morphine between the groups were not significant. Therefore, in women, the phase of the menstrual cycle is another factor that may influence skin-test results.

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Influence of the menstrual cycle on skin‐prick test reactions to histamine, morphine and allergen

Kalogeromitros

Κατσαρού

Armenaka

et al. 1995

Clin Experimental Allergy

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Steroid Hormones

Lamb¹,

Lain²,

Keaty³

et al. 1948

Arch Derm Syphilol

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Aspects of Human Chronopathology

Smolensky¹

1983

Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine

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Often in an individual or a group of patients the manifestation of disease or the exacerbation of symptoms is predictable, exhibiting time dependencies (chronopathologies) over 24-hr, 1-month, and 1-year periods. Chronopathology may involve also alterations in the temporal structure of biological functions quantifiable by differences in the period, acrophase, mesor, and/or amplitude, preceding, following, or coincident with a change in health status. While the major emphasis of most investigations has been the substantiation of periodicities in the occurrence of symptoms or morbid events, the study of changes in the body's temporal structure associated with the commencement of illness has yet to be vigorously pursued.

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Skin Reactivity during the Menstrual Cycle

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Influence of the menstrual cycle on skin‐prick test reactions to histamine, morphine and allergen

Influence of the menstrual cycle on skin‐prick test reactions to histamine, morphine and allergen

Steroid Hormones

Aspects of Human Chronopathology

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