Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP), also known as polymorphic eruption of pregnancy, is a common dermatological condition of pregnancy that typically presents in the third ...

Skin rash combined with head and joint pain: these are the symptoms which patients with familial (hereditary) cold urticaria develop when exposed to temperatures below 15 °C. Researchers from Charité ...

A growing number of patients with COVID-19 have developed urticarial welts. Credit: Kimberly M. Beckstrom, APRN, DNP, CNP Cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 are increasingly reported, with urticaria ...

Less than 1 percent of pregnant women (about 1 in 160 to 300) get a PUPPP rash, yet it's still the most common pregnancy skin condition. It tends to show up in first pregnancies, and popping up again ...

The development of urticaria is primarily thought to occur via an allergic or autoimmune pathway. Allergens or recognition of self-antigens by IgE results in the activation of mast cells and basophils ...

A 43-year-old woman presented with 6 months of recurrent bilateral eye pain and redness alongside spontaneous urticaria. She noted episodes of quarter-sized itchy lesions appearing on her abdomen, ...

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