AQUADYNIA - NORADRENERGIC PAIN INDUCED BY BATHING AND RESPONSIVE TO CLONIDINE

Authors
SHELLEY WB SHELLEY ED
Citation
Wb. Shelley et Ed. Shelley, AQUADYNIA - NORADRENERGIC PAIN INDUCED BY BATHING AND RESPONSIVE TO CLONIDINE, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 38(2), 1998, pp. 357-358
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology → ACNP
ISSN journal
01909622
Volume
38
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Part
2
Supplement
S
Pages
357 - 358
Database
ISI
SICI code
0190-9622(1998)38:2<357:A-NPIB>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We describe two women in whom bathing was regularly followed by intens e, widespread burning pain that lasted 15 to 45 minutes, which we term aquadynia. This water-induced pain was not caused by any skin or syst emic diseases. We view it as a type of noradrenergic pain induced by c ontact with water, because it can be blocked with clonidine or propran olol. It appears to be an extension of the phenomenon of aquagenic pru ritus, which we have also found to respond to clonidine or propranolol .