Urticaria Epidemiological Investigation, And Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome

To study the epidemiology background of urticaria,on this basis to summer up a common urticaria type of Chinese medicine to explore the clinical classification of the main points of differentiation and the pathogenesis of Chinese medicine,with a view to better guide clinical differentiation.An "urticaria epidemiological questionnaire" had been designed to collect clinical information of urticaria patients of Dongzhimen Hospital from July 2008 to March 2009,then entry the information to EXCEL form.This form will be aggregated by SAS8.0.1.The quantity of female Urticaria is double than male,and 70.59%of patients focus on the 21~50-year-old age group.2.Without any significant seasonal incidence,62.94%of patients have some rules of day-night which most patients worse on night.3.About 1/5 of patients have drug allergy history and family history of allergy to urticaria,allergic rhinitis and so on.Nearly half of patients suffer from other diseases,for example eczema,allergic rhinitis,chronic gastritis.4.85.88%of patients can be induced to find the exact or suspicious/aggravating factors,mainly of which are physical factors,food and additives.The highest ranked of the specific factors are cold,wind,animal protein,alcoholic drinks and tobacco spicy food,moisture.5.The majority of patients have been related to traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment with poor efficacy.6.The vast majority of patients have varying degrees of itching,half of those skin scratch put up positive symptoms.7.Urticaria patients feel discomfort in gastrointestinal system.8.The most valuable laboratory test for diagnosing urticaria are the skin prick test,serum source of in vitro allergy testing, patch test.Skin prick test,which results is the most accurate,show that the familiar allergen are animal protein,autumn pollen,acarid.9.Most of urticaria patients represent red and turbid lingua.10.The most popular TCM type is fengre-type,followed by weichangshire-type,biaoxubugu-type,fengkeyingwei-type,fenghan-type,fengshi-type, changweibuhexing-type,qixueliangxu-type,chongrenbutiao-type,xuexufengzao-type.The highest rate of incidence of urticaria take place in young and middle-aged women.Foods,wind,cold and other factors can due to urticaria.More than half of patients have circadian rhythm,and go with the history of allergic diseases and uncomfortable of gastrointestinal system.