flare-up

Preposition: of

• eczema: Looking back I am relieved that my son Matthew had stayed off from school with a flare-up of eczema on that Wednesday.
• symptom: Many people fall somewhere in between, with flare-ups of symptoms from time to time.
• pain: This clinical trial lends support to the use of willow bark for acute flare-ups of low back pain.
• disease: These risks need to be weighed up against those associated with an acute flare-up of the disease.
• arthritis: These techniques are often helpful after an injury and for acute flare-ups of more chronic arthritis or back pain.

Converse of object

• prevent: A steroid inhaler may not have much effect on your ' usual ' symptoms, but may help to prevent flare-ups.
• control: A week or two of an NSAID may be sufficient to control a flare-up.
• cause: Stress, being overtired, or too much alcohol can all play their part in causing a flare-up.
• experience: Sometimes, however, candidates will experience a flare-up of extra difficulty in addition to their usual symptoms.
• have: Having a really bad flare-up at the moment, am sooo fed up just now.
• get: I still get flare-ups of joint & muscle pain, and also suffer fatigue regularly.

Preposition: in

• symptom: This is so I could ramp up my cycling slowly from the flare-up in symptoms I had in recent months.

Adjective modifier

• acute: During an acute flare-up in any of these conditions the metabolic activity in the affected skin is high.
• occasional: The usual pattern throughout life is that there will be occasional flare-ups of symptoms followed by varying periods of complete or near-complete remission.
• severe: And, like Jan, if I try to pace myself to keep the severe flare-ups in better control.
• bad: Having a really bad flare-up at the moment, am sooo fed up just now.
• late: The latest flare-up over Sellafield involves the transport of two shipments of nuclear fuel from Japan to Britain through the Irish Sea.
• sudden: Sudden flare-ups of pain It is quite common to have mild flare-ups.

Noun used with modifier

• eczema: However, most children will suffer from eczema flare-ups from time to time.
• pain: Many people take an antispasmodic medicine for a week or so at a time to control pain when bouts of pain flare-up.