prurigo

It is sometimes considered to be a term encompassing Besnier prurigo and other conditions.

In true prurigo nodularis, a nodule forms before any itching begins.

Relieving symptoms of prurigo nodularis, a skin disease, when applied to the skin.

Prurigo nodularis has been identified with coeliac disease.

Thalidomide has also been found to be effective in treating actinic prurigo, an autoimmune skin disease.

The cause of prurigo nodularis is unknown, although other conditions may induce PN.

There is evidence that actinic prurigo is worsened by compact fluorescent light.

In some cases, Thalidomide has proven to be effective in controlling the symptoms of actinic prurigo.

Inflammatory skin deseases called actinic prurigo and discoid lupus erthematosus.

Besnier's prurigo (a specific type of atopic dermatitis).

The cause for actinic prurigo is unknown, however researchers believe that protein in our bodies may be a cause to the condition also:

In 1971, Nagashima reported a peculiar pruritic dermatosis he designated Prurigo pigmentosa.

The plant is highly effective in treating headaches, rhinitis, cough sore throat, colic, prurigo and vomiting.

The eponymous Besnier's prurigo is named for a skin disorder that often follows infantile atopic dermatitis.

Did you forget that this great man, this hero, this demigod, is attacked with a malady of the skin which worries him to death, prurigo?"

He describes the case of a woman troubled with prurigo nodularis - an intensely itchy eruption only moderately relieved by antihistamines and steroids.

The first English report:Nagashima M: Prurigo pigmentosa- Clinical observations in 14 cases.

In about one-fourth of the patients with Hodgkin's disease, skin symptoms may include hives and redness, swelling, balding, scaliness or bumpy lesions called prurigo.

Research also suggests that thalidomide is useful in treating complications of infection with HIV, such as wasting syndrome, nausea, and prurigo nodularis.

Currently there is no cure for actinic prurigo, and treatment focuses on relieving the dermatologic symptoms, by way of topical steroid creams or systemic immunosuppressants.

Minor mucocutaneous manifestations (seborrheic dermatitis, prurigo, fungal nail infections, recurrent oral ulcerations, angular cheilitis)

Stander S, Luger T, Metze D. Treatment of prurigo nodularis with topical capsaicin.

Pemphigoid nodularis is a cutaneous condition that is a variant of bullous pemphigoid that has skin lesions mimicking prurigo nodularis.

Thrombocytopenia is estimated to occur in 0.16% to 45.4% of people with chronic hepatitis C. Putative associations with Hyde's prurigo nodularis and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis have been reported.

PN is also known as Hyde prurigo nodularis, Picker's nodules, atypical nodular form of neurodermatitis circumscripta, lichen corneus obtusus.