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Role of Stress in Urticaria Syndrome

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Uritcarias are a group of condition resulting in acute illness or chronic relapsing and remitting condition. Urticaria has long been thought to have a connection to the environmental, physical and psychological stress however, in most cases this connection is overlooked. This chapter attempts to clarify definition and history of stress as a phenomenon and how it was conceptualized to play a predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating part in many illnesses especially urticaria. The chapter also aims tooutline some of the basic psychotheraputic and psychotropic management approaches that can be employed in patients with urticaria who has comorbid psychiatric illness. The role of stress on the pathophysiology of urticaria though still developing, is now becoming more clear then previously and may aid us to think more clearly how we can help us to better manage urticaria and to educate our patients to cope with their stress in a healthy way to improve their chances of better outcome of their urticarial disease.

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  1. Michigan State University, College of Human Medicne, Lansing, MI, USA

    Kinza N. Tareen BS

  2. Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

    Ruqiya Shama Tareen MD

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    Katlein França

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Saginaw, Michigan, USA

    Mohammad Jafferany

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Tareen, K.N., Tareen, R.S. (2017). Role of Stress in Urticaria Syndrome. In: França, K., Jafferany, M. (eds) Stress and Skin Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46352-0_18

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