Talk:Aquagenic pruritus

Soon
Soon after I started suffering from aquagenic pruritus, I got a Deep Vein Thrombosis on my leg and then a little later, I had a mild stroke. An investigation revealed that I had a Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) in my heart which has now been closed. One of the effects of the closure of the PFO seems to be that my aquagenic pruritus has improved. and I can now have a short shower without much discomfort, particualarly after exercise. My theory is that a contrbuting factor to the condition may be the existence of a PFO. I think that amyone with aquagenic pruritus should be checked out to see if the have a PFO and if they do, it should be closed. I have no medical qualifications.

Alec Walker Australia

Merger proposal
Aquagenic pruritus and urticaria appear to be two different forms of the same disease. The difference (visible symptoms vs invisible symptoms) isn't large enough to merit two different articles, I feel, especially for such a rare disease. Timaster735 (talk) 21:26, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Aquagenic pruritus and aquagenic urticaria are two different conditions. Please see either of the following reliable secondary sources if you need additional information (kilbad (talk) 20:56, 20 February 2009 (UTC)):
 * James, William; Berger, Timothy; Elston, Dirk (2005). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology (10th ed.). Saunders. ISBN 0721629210.
 * Wolff, Klaus; Goldsmith, Lowell; Katz. Stephen; Gilchrest, Barbara; Paller, Amy; Leffell, David (2007). Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine. (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill Professional.  ISBN 0071466908.
 * Oppose - Aquagenic pruritus and aquagenic urticaria are two very different conditions, and merging them would serve no good purpose. The two entries are linked under "See also" on both pages, making it easy for the interested person to go from one to the other. The distinction between seeing hives and seeing nothing is significant, and I have found nothing in the literature that says they are different manifestations of the same problem. Another significant difference is that Aquagenic Pruritus can be triggered by humidity, blowing air, temperature differences, changing clothes, contact with synthetic fibers, and lying down to try to sleep. I have not heard of Aquagenic Urticaria being triggered by anything but contact with water. Gynebias (talk) 18:39, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Aquagenic pruritus and aquagenic urticaria are two very different conditions. Merging the two will lead to confusion of the two. That they are not very common makes the distinction even more important. Fabrivelas 10 février 2009, 14:04 (UTC+0100) —Preceding undated comment was added at 13:04, 10 February 2009 (UTC).

Do I have it?
Sometimes after getting out the bath I itch like crazy. Really. I have plenty of scratch marks over mostly my forearms, shoulders, lower back and stomach. However it's not immediate, IE: I touch some water and itch, it's just after a bath. Really weird... Joe Davison 20:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Definitely seems like you could have it. You don't have to react to all water. 74.61.249.81 (talk) 20:32, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

/* Treatment */ showering after exercise
Two years ago I added the following, later deleted.:-
 * One sufferer has reported that showering after exercise instead of first thing in the morning helps.

I readily concede that this is original research. However much of the article is unreferenced. People who suffer from this condition look for things that will relieve the condition. I have no doubt that this is one place most, if not all, look. If the sufferer had reported that banging the head against a bring wall helped, I would certainly not report that. Even if showereing after exercise in a particular case does not help, a bit of exercise should not not cause any harmful sise effects.

I hope editors will be generous on my breach of the original research rule. Trahelliven (talk) 00:55, 17 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Trahelliven, I removed the information you added because it's just as likely to cause harm as it is to help, and Wikipedia is not a support group. There *is* a link to an online support group for the condition listed at the end of the article. That would be a good place to share your personal experience. MinervaK (talk) 06:23, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Link to the support group and its resources
I understand Wikipedia's policy about links to medical support groups not being acceptable. However, the Aquagenic Pruritus support list's resources on Yahoo! remains the definitive source for links and articles on the subject. Also, that list is also the definitive source of advice on diagnosis and treatment of symptoms.

Above on this page it says "There *is* a link to an online support group for the condition listed at the end of the article" but there isn't such a link.

How can a link to that list's resources be made available for the benefit of a sufferer finding this page such that they can be pointed at the disease's most useful resource, but within the constraints of Wikipedia's rules? SandJ-on-WP (talk) 22:49, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

(Obviously, come the glorious day the dermatology sector include AP in their text books, we can point to them instead.)

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