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Query: UMLS:C0015672 (fatigue)
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Forty patients with urticaria, 13 with cholinergic urticaria, 22 with urticaria factitia, and 5 with both types of urticaria, were treated with ketotifen or placebo in a double-blind crossover study. Five patients dropped out, one because of excessive weight gain. In 23 of 24 patients with urticaria factitia, ketotifen caused a marked reduction of wealing and pruritus. In contrast, only 62% of the patients with cholinergic urticaria noticed a reduction of wealing, and 69% had reduced itching. Ketotifen caused few side effects, the most frequent one being mild tiredness in 9% of the patients. The beneficial effect of ketotifen in urticaria factitia and cholinergic urticaria may be due to its ability to reduce the liberation and the effectiveness of mast cell mediators.
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PMID:[Effect of ketotifen in urticaria factitia and urticaria cholinergica in a crossover double-blind trial]. 390 13