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florentino
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 Posted: 05/24/05 - 02:00 Post subject: Chronic uticaria as an assignment title |
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Hello. I am 17 and I’m on a first year of the medical school.
I was hopping someone could help with something.
Every week, some of us in class get a new week assignment, kind of seminar, about one subject-medical condition.
This week professor gave me to do this week’s assignment.
My subject is to study one condition called chronic uticaria.
I don’t know anything about this condition because I have never heard about it in a school and none of my friends has no literature which could help me.
I don’t know what to do because my deadline is coming very fast!
Please help!
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darville
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| Posted: 06/15/05 - 05:52 Post subject: |
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Ok, schoolboy, I’ll try to help as much as I can because I also don’t know very much about this condition.
Uticaria (sometimes called hives) is an itchy rash caused by tiny amounts of fluid that leak from blood vessels just under the skin surface. This fluid is called histamine. If we want to name uticaria-chronic then a rash develops on most days for at least six weeks.
So, six weeks period is downer limit.
The trigger which causes histamine to get out of blood vessels is not known or identified in many cases.
Most common triggers are: auto-immune mechanism, some food or medication allergy or even some bacteria like Helicobacter Pillory found in the stomach.
Chronic uticaria tends to 'come and go'. Because, often symptoms disappear by them self.
Usual treatment is use of some antihistamine tablets such as Phenergan or similar and avoiding triggers or aggravating factors.
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| Posted: 06/16/06 - 17:19 Post subject: newbie |
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| I am experiencing Uticaria now. But if you are a first year med-student, you should research this instead of asking someone to answer for you. You don't have any literature? My doctor just showed me some, I just looked it up on the net, and I'm sure there are books in the library. I hope you do well in school, but please, if you want to be in a profession as serious as medicine, learn your stuff don't have others learn it for you. |
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| Posted: 07/10/06 - 12:44 Post subject: Re: Chronic uticaria as an assignment title |
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| florentino wrote: |
Hello. I am 17 and I’m on a first year of the medical school.
I was hopping someone could help with something.
Every week, some of us in class get a new week assignment, kind of seminar, about one subject-medical condition.
This week professor gave me to do this week’s assignment.
My subject is to study one condition called chronic uticaria.
I don’t know anything about this condition because I have never heard about it in a school and none of my friends has no literature which could help me.
I don’t know what to do because my deadline is coming very fast!
Please help!
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I've had Uticaria for three years now. I have been to numerous Doctors.
Had Allergy testing. Been on at least 18 different allergy meds. The last one I went to believes it is an Autoimmune Disorder, that like Fibromyalgia hasn't yet gotten a name. It is the MOST miserable thing in the world. I sometimes have welts as large as golf balls. My Eyes swell shut. There are other times I just have little ones that look like insect bites. EIther way, to me after three years they are unbareable. I know of no treatment. I have some form of them on a daily basis. When they get to the point where they are just totally unbarable I go to the ER and get Corticosteriod treatment. (which is the only thing that gives any relief) for ten days. That takes it away for about two weeks then there they are again.
If you should find out anything NAturally that works, please let me kn ow.
ilovenature7@aol.com |
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