Urticaria (hives)?!


Question: My age is 15. I am suffering from urticaria more than a year.
Previously i was taking levocetirizine tablets 5mg zylera given by my doctor.( but he could not detect that i was suffering from urticaria). Last week i visited him and he detected urticaria. He gave me Alaspan and one homeopathy medicine.
I have started taking it.
I dont know what is the cause. How can i cure it by controll on my diet and some excercise. What should i avoid eating. What is essential in my diet for urticaria.


Answers: My age is 15. I am suffering from urticaria more than a year.
Previously i was taking levocetirizine tablets 5mg zylera given by my doctor.( but he could not detect that i was suffering from urticaria). Last week i visited him and he detected urticaria. He gave me Alaspan and one homeopathy medicine.
I have started taking it.
I dont know what is the cause. How can i cure it by controll on my diet and some excercise. What should i avoid eating. What is essential in my diet for urticaria.

Chronic urticaria (urticaria lasting for greater than 6 weeks) is rarely, if ever, caused by an underlying allergy. This is different than most people/physicians assume, but chronic urticaria is different than acute urticaria (urticaria lasting less than 6 weeks).

Therefore, changes to your diet would likely have no impact on the presence or absence of urticaria.

In chronic urticaria, the term "idiopathic" is used- the condition is known as "chronic idiopathic urticaria". This generally means there is no known causes of the underlying urticaria disorder.

In this situation, patients are reassured that their hives are occurring independently of any external factors- in other words, it doesn't matter what you eat, what you do, where you are, etc, the hives are subject to occur.

The good aspect of chronic urticaria is also the bad aspect- there is no need to avoid anything from an allergic perspective, but because there is nothing that you can be instructed to avoid that is triggering the hives, they cannot be cured, only controlled.

Rarely, urticaria may be associated with an underlying condition, such as thyroid conditions, a chronic infection such as H. pylori, which causes ulcers, various autoimmune conditions, or other diseases like celiac disease. This is rarely the case, and a physician should be able to detect if you have symptoms or signs that would suggest an investigation into one of these other conditions is warranted.

In general, your chronic hives will eventually disappear, but there is a 50% chance that they wil return at some point.

As mentioned, control of hives likely won't be achieved utilizing dietary modification or exercise, but can generally be achieved utilizing a combination of medications. I would suggest a visit with a board-certified allergy and immunology specialist who has an interest in the evaluation and treatment of urticaria.

urticaria (hives) is often caused by an allergic reaction to a substance. Your best bet would be to go tested to see what you are actually allergic too. This is a simple test where the specialist will prick your skin then expose the area to a substance. They test you for everything from grass seeds to plastics. Check out the following site to get some info on what is involved and what to expect.
http://www.webmd.com/allergies/skin-test...

Get yourself a food sensitivity test e.g. York test:
http://www.yorktest.com/html/buy-a-test/...

Try to keep track of food eaten previous to breakouts.

first of all, you have to undergo some sensitivity tests which you can avail of at the allergologist clinic. several sensitivity test are done (one at a time) to find out to what substance you are allergic. from there, the doctor will start treating you. a skin biopsy is also helpful, my daughter had undergone the same. she is gradually healing

Chasing the cause of hives is very difficult. I had them to the point of almost not being able to function for a few years. Doxepine may help along with alegra. What worked for me to control them was an asthma medicine serevent or advair but be careful not to overdose yourself with it.
Finally lucked onto my problem -- turns out I had celiac disease which is an intolerance to gluten found in wheat barley and rye. It causes malabsorption of nutrients and can set up the underlying condition that then can manifest itself in urticaria.
So go to your doctor, he can do blood work to test for celiac disease and may end up doing an endoscopic exam which is not a big deal.
If you are diagnosed with celiac disease, you will have to not eat gluten containing products which is difficult at first but so much better than hives and quickly gets pretty easy to do.
Good luck and if you or your parents need to ask questions, feel free to contact me on here.

Since you are 15, it's not good to avoid essential nutrients at this crucial growing stage in your life. Ask your doctor to send you to an allergist to get testing for food allergies. Also ask to get a blood test for Celiac disease. The most common food allergies are

The most common food allergies are:[8]

Milk allergy
Egg allergy
Peanut allergy
Tree nut allergy
Seafood allergy
Shellfish allergy
Soy allergy
Wheat allergy

I've been tested for all these and a lot more and still have had hives and swelling for three years now. I was recently diagnosed with pressure hives and antihistamines don't help. Yours could even be because of hormones and puberty.





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