Aurélie Du-Thanh, Angèle Soria, Emmanuelle Amsler, Antoine Badaoui, Marie-Sylvie Doutre, Germaine Gabison, Claire Bernier, Delphine Staumont-Sallé, Florence Hacard, Florence Castelain, Anne-Sophie Darrigade, Gilbert Patrice Ml Tapsoba, Marie-Elodie Sarre, Pascale Mathelier-Fusade, Juliette Delaunay, Pauline Pralong, Annick Barbaud, Frédéric Dezoteux, Catherine Trémeau-Martinage, Zhary Bachtarzi, Frédéric Augey
Acquired cold contact urticaria (ACU) is a putatively serious condition, because of the risk of anaphylactic shock whenever patients are massively exposed to cold atmosphere/water, raising the question of the prescription of an "emergency kit" with oral antihistamines and epinephrine auto-injector. We performed an online survey to evaluate how French-speaking urticaria experts manage ACU. According to the 2016 consensus recommendations on chronic inducible urticarias, all the participants perform at least 1 of the available provocation tests and 84...
September 2022: World Allergy Organization Journal