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Arthropod assault is a medical term describing a skin reaction to an insect bite characterized by inflammation and eosinophilic response. [1]
Most arthropod bites and stings cause self-limited redness, itchiness and/or pain around the site. Less commonly (around 10% of Hymenoptera sting reactions), a large local reaction occurs when the area of swelling is greater than 10 centimetres (4 in).
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E905.8 Poisoning and toxic reactions caused by other specified animals and plants; E905.9 Poisoning and toxic reactions caused by unspecified animals and plants; E906 Other injury caused by animals; E906.0 Dog bite; E906.1 Rat bite; E906.2 Bite of nonvenomous snakes and lizards; E906.3 Bite of other animal except arthropod; E906.4 Bite of ...
Sweet syndrome (SS), or acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis, [1] [2] is a skin disease characterized by the sudden onset of fever, an elevated white blood cell count, and tender, red, well-demarcated papules and plaques that show dense infiltrates by neutrophil granulocytes on histologic examination.
Its cause remains unknown. Reasons such as an allergic reaction, tetanus toxoid vaccination, [2] [3] [4] or an alteration of immune regulation are suspected. Other theories like persistent antigenic stimulation following arthropod bites and parasitic or candidal infection have also been proposed.
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Mosquito bite allergies are informally classified as 1) the skeeter syndrome, i.e., severe local skin reactions sometimes associated with low-grade fever; 2) systemic reactions that range from high-grade fever, lymphadenopathy, abdominal pain, and/or diarrhea to, very rarely, life-threatening symptoms of anaphylaxis; and 3) severe and often ...