[Nursing care in the urticaria syndrome].

A study of urticarial syndrome is carried out at the "Ciro Redondo García" Municipality General Hospital, Artemisa. The clinical history of children hospitalized during 1988 in the Miscellaneous Ward were reviewed. Nurse care is valued. It was found that 9.4% of hospitalization corresponded to such disease and that urticaria was the most frequent form of presentation and in the group aged 5-14 years. Mean hospital stay was 5 years. Food was the prevailing cause of this disease and there was not chronic clinical forms.