Effect of aspirin on pruritus.
- 11 October 1986
- Vol. 293 (6552) , 907
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.293.6552.907
Abstract
The effect of 900 mg aspirin on persistent itch from chronic dermatoses other than urticaria (eight patients) and other causes (five patients) was measured subjectively using a 10 cm line and objectively as nocturnal scratch using limb meters. There was no change in itch or scratch and it is concluded that aspirin neither affects itch centrally by a pain related mechanism nor affects itch physiologically by cyclo-oxygenase inhibition in the skin.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Prostaglandins and pruritus*British Journal of Dermatology, 1976
- A new method for the measurement of itch and the response to treatmentBritish Journal of Dermatology, 1975
- Itch: Role of ProstaglandinsBMJ, 1973