Current Approach to Acute Urticaria and Angioedema in Children

Abstract Acute urticaria (AU) is defined as the persistence of urticarial plaques for less than 6 weeks. Roughly, half of the patients with AU are accompanied by angioedema. Although the disease is common in all age groups, usually it has a self-limiting and benign course. A presumptive trigger, such as infection, drug, food, insect sting maybe identifiable in some patients. But, no specific cause is found in many cases. Inthis article, we aimed summarize current knowledge on this issue