Assessment of her symptoms showed her Urticaria Activity Score over 7 consecutive days (UAS 7) was 35 per week. In September of that year, she was taken off hydroxyzine due to the side effect of ...

A mum-of-one who is allergic to water says taking a shower or getting caught in the rain feels like someone has "taken a lighter to her body". Kendall Bryce, 25, has aquagenic urticaria - a rare ...

Hives (urticaria) are a common skin reaction that causes bumps, raised patches, or both. They are one way the body responds to an allergen or trigger. Reactions can be uncomfortable but aren’t ...

Management of urticaria de pends on its cause. Aggravating factors should be identified from the history, and triggering stimuli for physical urticaria avoided. Simple cooling lotions, as 0.5% to ...

Diagnosing Hodgkin lymphoma involves taking a tissue sample from the node and testing it. Cholinergic urticaria is a kind of hives. Cholinergic refers to acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that is ...

Finally, we provide evidence for acetylcholine receptor nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha 6 (nAchRalpha6) regulating hemocyte proliferation in a cell autonomous fashion and for non-cell ...

Here, we show that Drosophila melanogaster also loses olfaction before vision with age. Within the olfactory circuit, cholinergic projection neurons show a reduced odor response accompanied by a ...

Post-shower itching commonly goes away after a few minutes. Applying moisturizing lotion can help to prevent and soothe itchy skin after a shower. However, post-shower itchiness is a sign of a medical ...