Management of simple insect bites: Where's the evidence?

Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 45-48

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ALUMINUM SULFATE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIPRURITIC AGENT; BENZOCAINE; CETIRIZINE; CHLORHEXIDINE; CHLOROXYLENOL; CORTICOSTEROID; CROTAMITON; EBASTINE; HYDROCORTISONE; IBUPROFEN; LEVOCETIRIZINE; LIDOCAINE; LORATADINE; PARACETAMOL;

ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BEDBUG BITE; BEE STING; BLOOD SAMPLING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; EDEMA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; INSECT BITE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOSQUITO; PAPULAR URTICARIA; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; WASP; WEAKNESS; WHEEZING; CONTACT DERMATITIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; PLANT; REVIEW;

DERMATITIS, CONTACT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; PLANTS, TOXIC;

EID: 84862306102     PISSN: 00126543     EISSN: 17555248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/dtb.2012.04.0099     Document Type: Article

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