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 ...

Urticaria affects both children and adults, with chronic cases more common in women, and often presents in emergency or dermatology settings. Conditions like vasculitic urticaria, erythema multiforme, ...

Chronic urticaria is defined as wheals (hives), angioedema (swelling), or both that have been continuously or intermittently present for at least 6 weeks, 1,2 in contrast to acute urticaria, which is ...

Urticaria pigmentosa — also known as maculopapular cutaneous mastocytosis (MPCM) — is an itchy rash that shows up most often in children and young adults. The rash may look reddish-brown, gray, ...

A massive global study has ranked the best and safest treatments for chronic hives when antihistamines fall short. The findings provide a clear treatment roadmap for both patients and clinicians alike ...

Urticaria affects 10% to 25% of the population at some point in their life (Henderson, Fleischer, & Feldman, 2000). It is characterized by short-lived swellings of the skin, mouth, and genitalia ...

In managing antihistamine-refractory chronic urticaria, omalizumab and remibrutinib stand out among the most effective treatments across multiple patient-important outcomes, followed by dupilumab, ...

In the majority of patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria, most currently available therapies do not result in complete symptom control. Ligelizumab is a next-generation high-affinity humanized ...

Contact urticaria is localized color changes and swelling on the skin that appear immediately after coming into contact with a specific substance. Contact urticaria can result from a variety of ...

Remibrutinib is the first Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor approved for chronic spontaneous urticaria, offering a novel treatment pathway by inhibiting BTK activity. Phase 3 trials showed ...

Physical urticaria is a skin condition in which hives (urticaria) develop from direct contact with certain physical elements. Unlike contact or allergy-related hives, the stimuli that trigger physical ...