Therapeutic patient education improves knowledge and skills for patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria.

Therapeutic patient education (TPE) allows patients to better understand their disease and cope with treatment. TPE programmes have not yet been evaluated for chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU). To investigate the cognitive and behavioural impact of TPE on CSU patients.

[DRUGS-INDUCED URTICARIA AND ANGIOEDEMA].

Drug-induced urticaria and/or angioedema is a frequent issue encountered in family medicine. A specific collection of the anamnesis and of the general context is very important to appreciate the involved mechanism, allergic or not, and potential cofactors. If in doubt about an allergic mechanism, tests will be conducted, mostly under a hospital setting.

Prevention of nonsteroidal inflammatory drug-induced urticaria and/or angioedema.

Background: Urticaria and/or angioedema (U/AE) are the most frequent and less severe forms of nonallergic hypersensitivity reactions to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Management of NSAID-induced U/AE includes (1) the avoidance of the culprit drug and of cyclooxygenase (COX) 1 inhibitors, (2) the use of weak COX-2 inhibitors, and/or (3) desensitization to aspirin. Because these possibilities may have drawbacks, we tested the possibility of preventing NSAID-induced U/AE by the administration of antihistamines and/or a combination of antihistamines and leukotriene antagonists.