Water urticaria

Water urticaria

Water urticaria, also known as aquagenic urticaria and aquagenous urticaria, is an extremely rare form of physical urticaria. It is sometimes described as an allergy, although it is not a histamine releasing allergic reaction like other forms of urticaria; it is more a hypersensitivity to the ions found in non-distilled water. In affected persons, water on the skin causes hives to appear within 15 minutes and last for up to two hours.

ee also

*Aquagenic pruritus

External links

* [http://dermatology.about.com/cs/hives/a/waterurt.htm About.com Dermatology Article]
* [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=520329&in_page_id=1811] Teenage Girl who is Allergic to Water - The Daily Mail News


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