heroin and Urticaria

heroin has been researched along with Urticaria* in 4 studies

Other Studies

4 other study(ies) available for heroin and Urticaria

ArticleYear
Opiate-sensitivity: clinical characteristics and the role of skin prick testing.
    Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2001, Volume: 31, Issue:7

    The value of skin prick testing in opiate-sensitive individuals is uncertain as opiates cause non-specific weals by direct degranulation of mast cells.. To define whether skin prick test (SPT) responses to opiates in opiate-sensitive individuals are different to those seen in the normal population and to describe the clinical characteristics of this group of subjects.. The SPT responses of eight opiate-sensitive subjects to morphine 10 mg/mL, pethidine (meperidine) 50 mg/mL and papaveretum 15.4 mg/mL at four different concentrations (undiluted, 1/10, 1/50 and 1/100) were compared with the responses of 100 (32 atopic) non-opiate-sensitive control subjects. Four of the opiate-sensitive subjects had a clinical history of asthma, rhinitis or urticaria on occupational exposure to morphine. One subject developed urticaria with codeine, one developed urticaria and asthma with morphine and diamorphine and two subjects reacted to intravenous papaveretum with anaphylaxis or urticaria. Five out of the eight cases had opiate sensitivity confirmed by single-blind placebo-controlled oral challenge.. Skin prick tests to all three opiates were not significantly different when the eight opiate-sensitive subjects were compared with either the entire normal control group or the subgroup of 47 definite opiate-tolerant controls that had previously received opiates for clinical indications. Furthermore, there were no significant differences in size of opiate SPT responses between atopic and non-atopic control subjects. In the control subjects, there was a positive correlation in SPT weal size between the three opiates.. Skin prick testing is not useful in the diagnosis of opiate sensitivity and placebo-controlled challenge should be considered.

    Topics: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Allergens; Asthma; Codeine; Drug Hypersensitivity; Female; Heroin; Humans; Male; Meperidine; Middle Aged; Morphine; Narcotics; Occupational Diseases; Opium; Rhinitis; Skin Tests; Urticaria

2001
Allergy to heroin.
    Allergy, 1990, Volume: 45, Issue:7

    Topics: Asthma; Drug Hypersensitivity; Heroin; Humans; Immunoglobulin E; India; Male; Middle Aged; Urticaria

1990
Cutaneous clues to heroin addiction.
    American family physician, 1973, Volume: 7, Issue:2

    Topics: Acanthosis Nigricans; Acne Vulgaris; Dental Caries; Dermatitis, Contact; Drug Eruptions; Edema; Gangrene; Hepatitis A; Heroin; Humans; Impetigo; Life Style; Pigmentation Disorders; Pruritus; Psychophysiologic Disorders; Purpura; Skin Diseases; Skin Manifestations; Substance-Related Disorders; Thrombophlebitis; Urticaria

1973
Urticaria as a sign of viral hepatitis.
    Archives of dermatology, 1972, Volume: 105, Issue:4

    Topics: Acute Disease; Adolescent; Adult; Diphenhydramine; Hepatitis A; Hepatitis B; Heroin; Humans; Liver; Male; Substance-Related Disorders; Urticaria

1972