Prevalence and characteristics of aquagenic pruritus in a young African population

BACKGROUND: Aquagenic pruritus (AP) occurs during or after contact of the skin with water such as occurs in bathing. METHODS: This study aims to describe the prevalence of aquagenic pruritus in a young adult population and describe the circumstances of bathing. A Population-based cross sectional stu...

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Autores principales: Salami, TA, Samuel, SO, Eze, KC, Irekpita, E, Oziegbe, E, Momoh, MO
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19374742
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-5945-9-4
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author Salami, TA
Samuel, SO
Eze, KC
Irekpita, E
Oziegbe, E
Momoh, MO
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description BACKGROUND: Aquagenic pruritus (AP) occurs during or after contact of the skin with water such as occurs in bathing. METHODS: This study aims to describe the prevalence of aquagenic pruritus in a young adult population and describe the circumstances of bathing. A Population-based cross sectional study involving administration of Questionnaires to young adult Nigerians on the occurrence of pruritus associated with bathing. RESULTS: The prevalence of bathing pruritus among respondents in this study was 23.8%. The commonest type of water respondents itch to was rain water (23%) followed by cold water (19%). 8.33% of respondents feels like avoiding bathing because of these. CONCLUSION: Bathing pruritus is a common finding among young adult Nigerians in the general population.
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spelling pubmed-26732092009-04-25 Prevalence and characteristics of aquagenic pruritus in a young African population Salami, TA Samuel, SO Eze, KC Irekpita, E Oziegbe, E Momoh, MO BMC Dermatol Research Article BACKGROUND: Aquagenic pruritus (AP) occurs during or after contact of the skin with water such as occurs in bathing. METHODS: This study aims to describe the prevalence of aquagenic pruritus in a young adult population and describe the circumstances of bathing. A Population-based cross sectional study involving administration of Questionnaires to young adult Nigerians on the occurrence of pruritus associated with bathing. RESULTS: The prevalence of bathing pruritus among respondents in this study was 23.8%. The commonest type of water respondents itch to was rain water (23%) followed by cold water (19%). 8.33% of respondents feels like avoiding bathing because of these. CONCLUSION: Bathing pruritus is a common finding among young adult Nigerians in the general population. BioMed Central 2009-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2673209/ /pubmed/19374742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-5945-9-4 Text en Copyright © 2009 Salami et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and characteristics of aquagenic pruritus in a young African population
title_short Prevalence and characteristics of aquagenic pruritus in a young African population
title_sort prevalence and characteristics of aquagenic pruritus in a young african population
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673209/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-5945-9-4
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