Authors' response

We read the correspondence by Andersen et al1 with great interest. They made a number of important comments on our study of skin pain in atopic dermatitis (AD)2 that we would like to address. Severe pain and itch were found to exist concomitantly in a significant proportion of patients with AD. To clarify this point, we re-evaluated the data and found that most patients had some itch in the past 24 hours (98.4%). Interestingly, there were numerically lower rates of skin pain in those with vs without itch in the past 24 hours (46.2% vs 75.0%).

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