The Role of Psychiatric, Analgesic, and Antiepileptic Medications in Chronic Pruritus

Chronic pruritus is a complex yet prevalent concern without a gold standard treatment. The mainstay therapy for chronic pruritus includes topical ointments such as corticosteroids, capsaicin, local anesthetics, antihistamines, and immunomodulators. There are many different subtypes of chronic prurit...

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Autores principales: Patel, Parth, Patel, Keshav, Pandher, Karan, Tareen, Ruqiya Shama
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8425105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34522555
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17260
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Pandher, Karan
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description Chronic pruritus is a complex yet prevalent concern without a gold standard treatment. The mainstay therapy for chronic pruritus includes topical ointments such as corticosteroids, capsaicin, local anesthetics, antihistamines, and immunomodulators. There are many different subtypes of chronic pruritus, and each unique subtype may benefit from specialized treatments. This review article sheds light on the role of psychiatric, analgesic, and antiepileptic medications in chronic pruritus. We believe that further large-scale studies are needed to determine the true effectiveness of these medications in treating chronic pruritus.
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spelling pubmed-84251052021-09-13 The Role of Psychiatric, Analgesic, and Antiepileptic Medications in Chronic Pruritus Patel, Parth Patel, Keshav Pandher, Karan Tareen, Ruqiya Shama Cureus Dermatology Chronic pruritus is a complex yet prevalent concern without a gold standard treatment. The mainstay therapy for chronic pruritus includes topical ointments such as corticosteroids, capsaicin, local anesthetics, antihistamines, and immunomodulators. There are many different subtypes of chronic pruritus, and each unique subtype may benefit from specialized treatments. This review article sheds light on the role of psychiatric, analgesic, and antiepileptic medications in chronic pruritus. We believe that further large-scale studies are needed to determine the true effectiveness of these medications in treating chronic pruritus. Cureus 2021-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8425105/ /pubmed/34522555 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17260 Text en Copyright © 2021, Patel et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8425105/
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