A Literature Review of Senile Pruritus: From Diagnosis to Treatment
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2340/00015555-2574Keywords:
senile, elderly, itch, pruritusAbstract
Pruritus occurs frequently in the elderly population, but it has not been fully defined and its precise prevalence is unknown. Putative causes of pruritus are numerous and patients? quality of life can be greatly reduced. In the absence of any specific cause, a diagnosis of senile pruritus is proposed, suggesting that itch is secondary to ageing. However, the relationship of pruritus with skin ageing and/or neuronal ageing and/or immune ageing is poorly understood. Many treatments have been reported, but are poorly effective. This paper reviews the literature on senile pruritus, in order to improve understanding of this condition and to enable improved diagnosis and treatment.Downloads
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2017 Caroline-Jade Clerc, Laurent Misery
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
All digitalized ActaDV contents is available freely online. The Society for Publication of Acta Dermato-Venereologica owns the copyright for all material published until volume 88 (2008) and as from volume 89 (2009) the journal has been published fully Open Access, meaning the authors retain copyright to their work.
Unless otherwise specified, all Open Access articles are published under CC-BY-NC licences, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes, provided proper attribution to the original work.