Singh Sapna¹, Gupta Arvind²

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.47191/ijahm/v13i2.03

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Abstract:

This is a case study of a 30 years old male patient with complaints of severe itching, wheals all over body, pain and burning sensation since last 07 years. This condition is known as sheetpitta in ayurveda which is very much similar to urticaria in modern science (an allergic condition of skin to a variety of exogenous and endogenous agents). Sheetpitta is a condition in which vata and kapha dosha gets vitiated due to exposure to cold and these two doshas vitiate pitta,that circulate all over the body producing symptoms such as ‘vratika danshvat shotha’(wheals over body), daha (burning sensation), kandu (itching). Any significant relief was not observed by the patient from conventional antihistamine therapies,omalizumab injections and steroids. The condition of this patient was managed with panchakarma procedures like vamana and virechana along with shaman aushadhi, which elicited remarkable improvement in subsiding the symptoms and reducing its recurrence rate. The patient was asked to monitor itching, hives and other symptoms daily for seven days. Before and after treatment urticaria activity score (UAS7) was accessed at each follow up. Quality of life showed remarkable improvement based on UAS7 score.

Key –words:Sheetpitta, Urticaria, Omalizumab, Vamana, Virechan, Shamana, Shodhan, UAS7 score

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