The Urticaria Caused By Medicine Ingestion

The urticaria is a cutaneous process that attends with intense prurito or sensation of quemazón and that accompanies by the appearance of injuries or bumps in the entire cutaneous surface and, in occasions, also in mucous. The characteristic thing of this process is that the injuries tend to disappear in hours.

Any person can suffer this process and the same affects both sexes. More rarely they can be affected old and young. The etiology of the urticaria very usually is varied, implying infectious, medicaments, immunological or nourishing factors.

However, until in the 50 percent of the cases a clear one cannot be found leading. In the infantile population, the urticaria is associated more frequently to respiratory infections or foods.

Causes:

• Medicine ingestion certain and some foods, like seafood, nuts or fruits.
• The idiopáticas (of cause no identified).
• Digestive upheavals by bad operation of the liver or infections caused by virus, like hepatitis or rubella.
• Gastritis or gastroenteritis. Illegal use of very aggressive laxative laxatives or.
• Emotional instability.
• Stress.
• Continuous rubbing of the clothes with the body.
• Irritating contact with some plants or substances.
• Puncture of insects.
• Hormonal imbalances.
• Sensible skin.
• Use of some cosmetics.

The main symptom is the itch that accompanies the habonosas injuries or “bumps". Some patients before experience days to the appearance of the cutaneous picture loss of appetite, malaise, headache, pains you will articulate or fever. The cutaneous injuries are detected easily. Bumps begin with a discreet reddening that little by little is accentuated and is increasing in number in a matter of minutes.

The characteristic thing is the disappearance of the injuries in few hours. Digestive symptoms like abdominal or diarrhea pain, as well as respiratory symptoms with appearance of respiratory difficulty can be associated.

The diagnosis of the urticaria is eminently clinical, since the cutaneous injuries are very easy to identify. Only in the case of wanting to discard some possible causal agent, the analytical determinations can be made that they are considered opportune and that generally usually they include hemogramas, biochemical with hepatic profile, sediments of tinkles, etc.

Treatment:

• When one appears in sudden form, it does not require treatment generally, because it disappears after days or, sometimes, in minutes.
• It is recommended to follow a diet based on vegetables, fruit and rice.
• In also recommendable the food consumption that standardizes the milky operation of the digestive apparatus, like yogurt or other ferments, that help to compensate the damages suffered by the intestinal flora and to the improvement of the gastric mucosa.
• Administration of antihistamine that alleviates itch partially and reduces the inflammation.
• To control stress helps to reduce to the frequency and gravity of the attacks. It is possible to be resorted to natural products, like teas and tranquilizers.
• Other medicines in the skin never must be applied pomades or.
• In serious cases, the doctor will make examinations to locate to the origin of the upheaval in liver or internal.
• If the person has difficulty to swallow or to breathe she must receive urgency treatment.

In a 90 percent of the patients with acute urticaria, bumps remain during two or three weeks until their total and definitive disappearance. Patients with urticaria chronic, that is those whose picture persists more than 6 weeks, can continue with repetitive buds during long time.

Autor: Hidrocodone Para Dolores.

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