Do I have to keep using the Fucibet cream?
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Hi there
I have a mild urticaria, nothing as bad as some fellow forumites have had to put up with, but irritating none the less. It all started when I got an infected insect bite on my leg two years ago, then it spread all over my lower right leg. My GP gave me Fucibet cream and recently, an antihistammine called Ucerax (hdroxyzine). Both the cream and anti-histanine help and after a while it clears up, I take the hydroxyzine every day as I have other allergies too, but if after it clears up I stop the fucibet the urticaria starts again. I've read that fucibet can be bad for your skin long term as it contains a hydrocortisone as well as an anti-bacterial. Maybe what I have isn't urticaria? I don't know.
Any thoughts very welcome
xxx
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mh96526 Lizzie46881
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Please try taking 1 antihistamine (like Zyrtec) AND 1 antacid daily. I had severe hives for two years following my hysterectomy. Sometimes my feet would swell so much that I had no arch and my skin would split. My hives were caused by pressure, stress, heat, you name it. Once I started taking both the antihistamine and the antacid together every morning, I stopped having hives after a couple of weeks.
From what I understand, those individuals with chronic urticaria need to block both the h1 histamines and the h2 histamines. H1 histamines are blocked by the allergy type of antihistamine and h2 histamines are blocked by antacids.
I took that combination for 9 years with great success. Zero issues with hives. Now, I don't have to take either.
Lizzie46881 mh96526
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I have lots of other problems too like asthma, hayvever tyope allergies which last all year, bipolar, anxiety, anaemiea etc, so I'm on a right combination of meds, still, I'm feeling really well today so praise God.
Love
Lizzie xxx
norman32101 Lizzie46881
Posted
i assume simple moisturisers don't work? If that is so, I think the time has come for a dermatology consultant to have a look.
where in the uk were you when bitten?
Lizzie46881 norman32101
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Thanks for your thoughtful reply
Lizzie