solar urticaria
MONDO:0019945Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names solar urticaria yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Solar urticaria (SU) is a rare and difficult to treat photosensitive disease, in which local skin swelling occurs within minutes of exposure to natural sunlight or even artificial light sources emitting ultraviolet radiation.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0019945), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
16 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Abnormal lip morphologyHPOHP:0000159
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Abnormal tongue morphologyHPOHP:0030809
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- AngioedemaHPOHP:0100665
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- EdemaHPOHP:0000969
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- HeadacheHPOHP:0002315
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Immunologic hypersensitivityHPOHP:0100326
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- NauseaHPOHP:0002018
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Periorbital edemaHPOHP:0100539
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- PruritusHPOHP:0000989
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- SyncopeHPOHP:0001279
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- UrticariaHPOHP:0001025
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- VertigoHPOHP:0002321
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
Show the remaining 4
- WheezingHPOHP:0030828
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- DyspneaHPOHP:0002094
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Dermatographic urticariaHPOHP:0011971
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
- Anaphylactic shockHPOHP:0100845
- Very rare (1% to 4% of cases)
Where it sits
- A kind of