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http://dx.doi.org/10.3831/KPI.2010.13.3.103

A Clinical Report of Localized Itching After Treatment with Sweet Bee Venom  

Choi, Seok-Woo (Department of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, College of Oriental Medicine Woosuk University)
Choi, Se-Un (Department of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, College of Oriental Medicine Woosuk University)
Oh, Sung-Jong (Department of Meridian & Acupoint, College of Oriental Medicine Woosuk University)
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Journal of Pharmacopuncture / v.13, no.3, 2010 , pp. 103-108 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives : This study is to report the percentage of localized itching which occurred, when we injected to patients with Sweet Bee Venom(Sweet BV). Methods : We investigated 374 patients who had injected with Sweet BV in our clinic from February 15. 2009 to April 30, 2010. We checked the number and percentage of patients who occured localized itching on injection area. Then we analyzed those according to times in treatment, the body parts of injection and treatment dosage. Results and Conclusion : Localized itching was lower by 1.60% in the first treatment with Sweet BV. However localized itching was 12.83% in the whole course of treatment, which showed a similar incidence of 13% in Bee Venom. Therefore it can be interpreted that Sweet BV may help suppress the immune responses such as itching in the initial treatment, but the occurrence of local immune responses of Sweet BV may be similar to that of Bee Venom in continued treatment. We suppose that we should be careful of the occurrence of local immune responses as Bee Venom at least until the fourth treatment in clinical application with Sweet BV, although localized itching did not occur in the first treatment. Also we should be careful of treatment with Sweet BV in body parts, such as wrist, hand, chest and abdominal, because the percentage of localized itching was relatively high in those parts.
Keywords
Sweet BV; Itching; immune response;
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