A GP guide to urticaria in children
While many cases are benign and self-limiting, care is required to identify and appropriately manage those with more complex causes of childhood urticaria
Need to know:
Urticaria is a condition characterised by the presence of wheals, angioedema, or both.
Urticarial lesions, also commonly known as wheals, hives or welts, are lesions with a sharply circumscribed superficial central swelling of variable size and shape, with or without surrounding erythema.
Lesions are usually intensely itchy, and are transient in nature, lasting for 30 minutes up to 24 hours.
