A potpourri of summer allergic environmental disorders

Abstract

With summer right around the corner, people will be engaging in fun summer activities including spending more time outdoors, participating in water activities, and exploring new destinations. Through the complex interaction of the immune system and the “summer environment,” some people may also be presenting as patients to their clinicians with diseases uniquely attributable to these summer specific exposures. In this manuscript, we present a series of case vignettes that do not represent actual patients, but being clinically consistent with published case reports, they are useful to illustrate a few of the exotic differential diagnoses of summer for which the astute clinician should be aware. Unfortunately, the occurrence of most of these conditions is documented solely by isolated case reports; however, where prevalence data is available, it will be referenced.