CHRONIC URTICARIA ASSOCIATED WITH DENTAL INFECTION: AN OVERLOOKED CAUSE

Abstract

Urticaria is a dermatological disease caused by various aetiologies namely infection, stress and allergy. Chronic urticaria can persist for long duration despite having proper medications. The most common reason for persistent urticaria can be attributed to undetected focus of infection in the body like untreated dental infection. This case report highlights the association of dental infection and persistent urticaria, in which the urticaria lesions persisting since three years got completely cured following the treatment of dental infection in a nine-year-old boy.