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Diagnosis and treatment of pruritus.
Can Fam Physician
December 2017
Medical Director of the Phototherapy Education and Research Centre at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, Ont, a dermatologist, and Lecturer for the University of Toronto.
Objective: To describe an approach that allows for a streamlined assessment and accurate differentiation of most patients with itch in primary care and to provide an update on the available nonpharmacologic, topical, and systemic therapies.
Sources Of Information: MEDLINE (Ovid) and PubMed were searched for the key words or Searches were refined for each cause and treatment by adding appropriate key words, and subsequent hand searches of the references of retrieved literature were performed.
Main Message: A good body of evidence from high-quality trials does not exist for treatment of pruritus, and the treatments that do exist are inconsistent in their success.