Hives
(asked on 10th October 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in England have been diagnosed with chronic spontaneous urticaria in each year since 2010.
This question was answered on 17th October 2014
Information concerning the number of people with chronic spontaneous urticaria (also known as hives, welts or nettle rash) in England is not collected. However, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence estimates that approximately 15% of people in the United Kingdom experience urticaria at some time in their lives and the lifetime prevalence of chronic urticaria is 0.5–1%.