Delayed pressure urticaria manifesting as dyspareunia – is it that uncommon?
George N. Konstantinou
A # * and Indrashis Podder A B #
A Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 424 General Military Training Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
B Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Handling Editor: Somesh Gupta
Sexual Health 19(5) 488-489 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH22029
Submitted: 15 February 2022 Accepted: 7 July 2022 Published: 2 August 2022
© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing
Abstract
Delayed pressure urticaria (DPU) is a variant of physical urticaria characterised by reproducible whealing on application of sustained pressure to the skin. Clinical manifestations include delayed cutaneous erythema, edema and subcutaneous swelling, typically occurring 4–6 h after application of mechanical pressure. Dyspareunia is defined as persistent or recurrent pain in the genital area or within the pelvis that occurs just before, during, or after sexual intercourse. We report an unusual case of DPU manifesting as dyspareunia.
Keywords: awareness, delayed pressure urticaria, dermographometer, dyspareunia, inducible urticaria, mucosal, omalizumab, physical urticaria.
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