Homoeopathic management of chronic urticaria: A case report

Abstract

Urticaria is an inflammatory skin disorder that affects up to 20% of the world population at any point of time during their life. It presents with wheals, angioedema or both. Urticaria is classified based on its duration, as acute or chronic. Acute urticaria is defined as the occurrence of wheals, angioedema, or both for 6 weeks or less. Chronic urticaria has been defined as wheals, angioedema, or both with daily or almost daily symptoms lasting for more than 6 weeks. Chronic urticarias greatly affects patient quality of life, and is linked to psychological comorbidities and high healthcare costs. Management of such cases in most of the time will be palliative. Homoeopathic mode of treatment has always outstood in terms of efficacy in all such cases. This article deals with one such case of Chronic urticaria which showed promising results following administration of Homoeopathic medicines.