Flashcards
New-onset urticaria
Cards in this deck (3)
- 1ACUTE URTICARIAWhen it has been present for less than 6 weeks.
- 2CHRONIC URTICARIAWhen it is recurrent, with signs or symptoms recurring most days of a week, for 6 weeks or more.
- 3URTICARIAL LESIONS OR HIVESCircumscribed, raised, erythematous plaques, often with central pallor.
Round, oval or serpinginous in shape.
Vary in size from <1 cm - several centimeters in diameter.
They are intensely itchy.