HELICOBACTER-PYLORI - A POSSIBLE ETIOLOGI C FACTOR OF CHRONIC URTICARIA

In this study, 21 of 30 patients suffering from torpid chronic urticar ia, which had lasted from three months to five years had Helicobacter pylori infection which was proved microscopically, in cultivation, and urea test. All 21 patients had demonstrable chronic antrum gastritis. Seventeen of them became free of infection, urticaria and pathologic immunologic parameters after triple therapy (bismuthum subnitricum, me tronidazole, antibiotics). Therapy with bismuthum subnitricum and metr onidazole was successful in three patients, one patient suffered from reinfection. These 21 patients remained without urticaria for at least three months. In current literature no information of patients with c hronic ''idiopathic'' urticaria and Helicobacter pylori infection was found.