Article Text
Letter
Chronic urticaria and coeliac disease
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We appreciated the paper by Levy et al published in this journal in June 2003.1
A number of the cases of chronic urticaria in children appear to be of unknown aetiology, and experiences such as the one reported by the authors indicate an autoimmune origin.
In our opinion the model of association between thyroiditis and chronic urticaria may apply to the association between coeliac disease and chronic urticaria as well. Remarkably, …