Acute urticaria - identifying the trigger (food vs drug timing)
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IgE-mediated food urticaria appears within minutes to ~2 hours of ingestion, so an egg meal eaten 2 hours before itchy widespread weals is the likely culprit over a drug taken 6 hours earlier. Match symptom onset to exposure timing.
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