The Veteran's dermatographia, dry skin, and dermatographic urticaria have been granted service connection as a diagnosed illness without conclusive pathophysiology or etiology that has required first line treatment for control.
The deciding factor: The condition is rated analogous to urticaria under Diagnostic Code 7825 due to its symptoms involving skin and requiring antihistamines for control, meeting the criteria of being manifest to a degree of at least 10 percent.
- Claimed conditions
- dermatographia, dry skin, dermatographic urticaria
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 28, 2020
- Citation
- 20006491
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 3,217 · Granted: 46% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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