The Importance of Intracutaneous Tests in Various Types of Constitutional Neurodermatitis

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Abstract
For the purposes of this paper, only patients with neurodermatitis over the age of 16 were studied. About 20% of those who had no evidence of asthma or allergic rhinitis reacted with a positive immediate reaction to skin testing with inhalant allergens. However, approximately 75% of all patients with neurodermatitis and asthma or allergic rhinitis, or both, had positive immediate reactions to skin testing with inhalant allergens. In general, 40% of all patients with neurodermatitis tended to have exacerbations of their skin ailment in the winter, whether or not they had concomitant respiratory allergies, or had positive immediate skin reactions; 21% show no seasonal variation in the severity of their neurodermatitis; 18% show worsening in the summer; 10% in the autumn; 11% in the spring. A detailed analysis of the incidence of seasonal exacerbation of the neurodermatitis in both allergic and non-allergic groups is given in the text and charts. There was no difference between subjects with positive or negative immediate skin reactions in variation of the severity of neurodermatitis with climatic conditions. Patients who have constitutional neurodermatitis associated with allergic rhinitis generally give stronger positive skin reactions to test materials than patients with constitutional neuro -dermatitis and asthma. There is no proof that an immediate positive skin test to inhalant allergens indicates that the specific inhalant material is in part or in whole responsible for the neurodermatitis.

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