THERE HAS TO BE A CAUSE OF URTICARIA ...

Hi, I have had the worst 6 months of my life due to an allergic reaction to something that has left me itching all over For months and constant spots and hives.. I have been on 50 mg of steroids and far to many anti histermines just allow me to keep the itch at bay and be able to work. I have put on 1 stone with fluid and have had a non existence social and personal life. My husband and I have researched remedies, purchased every cream and tried unsuccessfully until now to find something that helps. Early this week I took myself to bed with a bottle of whiskey because I had had enough of being swollen spotty and itchy with little or no help from the medical sector. But I can sy within 24 hours and a little help from a friend I have honestly found a cure or well at least a treatment. Please please try Emu oil plus! It is honestly the best thing in the world. If you apply all over it makes you feel odd for about 20 mins, really cold, but I absolutely promise you you will nt itch. It's pungent but it's amazing! I have not had an anti histermines for 48 hours! I was on 8 a dy of strong ones! If I could I would shout it fom the roof tops to help other sufferers! I ave bathed in everything down to detol trying to find a cure and ave visited the octor every week since June but that cream, wow honest,y, where m arms and body were full of spots scabs and hives have gone down 95%. I've even got my steroids down.its available on te Internet and available in different forms but if you want to try it get the Emu plus, it's around 10 pound but worth it's weight in gold. Let me know how you get on because after suffering from this horrendous condition with no help but masking of chemical drugs that never made it go just gave a slight control I want to get this crem out there to help other sufferers. Am I cured? I don't know but I do know, I've had more sleep in 2 days then te last 6 months!!

Hi gracle53--

I hope you are still checking responses to your post, as I registered just to answer you. I have had dermatographic urticaria almost my entire life (since I was ten) and when I was young, they told me "someday it will go away." Not the case. 25 years later, I still have this condition. Unlike in your case, antihistamines do tend to work for me but they only cover the symptoms, which come raging back the next day. However, in the last year I have found a diet that has reduced by antihistamine intake from 6 pills a day to 1. It is called "autoimmune paleo" and I highly recommend you look into it. After testing with autoimmune paleo's elimination diet, I realized that this Urticaria is 75% my body's reaction to almost all foods except clean meats and vegetables (I tolerate fruit but not a huge amount). It seems that grains, sugar and lactose are the biggest culprits. The other 25% of my symptoms have not seen improvement, so I consider them to be environmental or genetic factors. This could be the case for you, or even different foods--it has been trial and error for about a year. Urticaria and dermatographism are autoimmune responses, though no doctor will tell you that.

I have done tons of research into why this issue sprang up for me when I was 10 years old and the two things I have in common with several other sufferers are: 1. I had a high amount of antibiotics as a child in response to a diagnosis of facial cellulitis (a form of menangitis) and 2. I was given soy formula.

I truly hope you find some relief. I know how hard this condition can be, especially when it feels like doctors are not taking you seriously or trying to come up with a solution. I wish you the best of luck.

Hello! I hope this can help people. I know many many people have been living with hives for decades. I also know that professionals say this is not an allergic reaction. I tend to disagree in my case. I have been suffering from severe hives for the past year and a half. It took a full year for me to track down the source. Yet I am still suffering from hives for a reason. Actually I do agree with professionals that it is not an allergic reaction from the air or any foods or household items you may have changed. I have never been allergic to anything other than poison ivy.

Suddenly I was breaking out in huge welps! They would start out as a simple dot or spot that looked and itched like a mosquito bite. Next thing you know I had a patch that covered most of my thighs... and it moved onto my entire back... to my feet... etc etc. It seems most of the time if one foot is affected, so was the other, if one arm was, so was the other... Note, it has, but rarely hit my face, above my neck or my airways... often the palms of my hands, torso, legs, feet, arms, hips... but generally both sides of my body when it hits one side.

It was not until we bought this beautiful hay to feed our donkeys. Any ordinary hay, such as our own or hay from a neighbor, did no harm. I believe this hay was fertilized with some chemical. I don't think it's the hay itself, it's the chemical they use on it. The hay was too perfect. Once I got my husband to feed the hay, the hives subsided somewhat, yet I still got some hives because I still do his laundry which had contact and I have cats and dogs who are in our barn and I still feed and pet my donkeys, therefore I still have contact... and there is residual hay on the floor of our barn. This is the second year with this hay and as soon as I finish these last 2 bales, we will rake out the barn and buy no more of that beautiful "perfect" hay.

How I treat these hives... I have been using a shelf brand with the active ingredient "Loratadine" 24-hour non-drowsy allergy medicine. It relieves my hives in about an hour for about 24 hours... however the long term effect I am receiving nowadays is my ears ringing rather loudly.

I know this is not a cure for those of you who have chronic hives, but perhaps it helps those of you who have only been suffering for a few months... or perhaps it will give some of you a possible cause that you have not thought of because you could not pinpoint it.

Perhaps once scrape the floor of our barn I will still have hives... but I did not develope these hives until I was 53 years old... I hope within a month or two, I will find the end to them.

I hope this can help someone... and find relief for you too.

I also had a rash and itching for several months. Then one night my lips and face swelled up after I had a bag of asian crisps. I looked at the ingredients and the one that stood out was e621 which is msg. This set me on an internet search and I found out about riborash which is like the hives I had. It is caused by flavour enhancers especially 635, 621 and 627. These enhancers are in just about all processed food including takeaway. I then just ate simple foods like meat with no gravies or marinades, fruit and veg and the rash cleared up within days. Its only when I dont follow or read ingredients that the itching comes back.Flavour enhancers are also called yeast extract, hvp, flavours and natural flavours.Soy sauce and promite and vegemite are also glutamates like msg.There is a great website called fedup that explains it in more detail. The worse things you can eat are flavoured chips (crisps) chicken salt, CC's, KFC, Arnotts shapes, pies etc, stock cubes, liquid stock and the list goes on Hope this helps I rarely take an antihistamine now omly if I know I will deliberately eating something with msg or flavour enhancer. P.S. I was not allergic to anything before this year I think FH is in more products.

Google "riborash" and "fedup" website You may find you are allergic to msg and flavour enhancers like myself. They are known as 635, 621, 627, yeast extract, hvp, glutamates, flavours and natural flavours and are found in most processed foods such as pies, gravy chicken salt, flavoured crisps, savoury biscuits like shapes, marinated meats, sausages ,CC's, KFC, McDonalds, stock cubes, soy sauce, salad dressings, vegemite and promite and the list goes on. Fresh fruit and veg and meat, rice etc is the way to go. Read all labels and you'll notice a difference in days. Good luck. I never use to be allergic to any- thing but it seems to be in more foods than ever before.

I know exactly what you are talking about and the fustration you feel. I have chronic urticaria and delayed pressure urticaria dpu. The delayed pressure urticaria is the worst to treat. I also know that your type is bad where it affects your throat etc. I have been on countless types of medication none have really worked. Montelukaust made me worse all antihistamines are crap cos they never work even using high dosages.  I have been on cyclosporin and prednisone. I had one day free of anything on the steroids that I announced it on facebook saying I was normal.  My friends thought I lost the plot. The only people who know what we are going through is us sufferers.

I found it difficult to hold down my job as a civil servant taking loads of random days off sick. I am sure they thought I was making it up as they don't understand.  Luckily for me a voluntary redundancy came up and I have taken it as I would have been sacked. Not because I am rubbish at my job but because of sickness.  

I barely sleep properly because of my symptoms and my social life is at a more months me minimum.  My leaving do at work is a good example because my feet was itching do much and staring to swell up I had to leave my own do like cinderella.

I am a strong independent person and I have broken down myself because of this. I really don't want to live the rest of my life like this either.  Yes I agree there is not enough research out there about this and I am all too familiar with the feeling of being fobbed off all the time.  And made to feel like you are lying or making it all up because most people don't understand this really uncomfortable frustrating illness. 

Apart from this forum I don't know what is out there for sufferers.  And we can't diagnose ourselves only talk about our experiences.  We need more than this we need to demand that things move on for us and there is more help for us.

 

since June I have had this urticaria my doctor first misdiagonised me and had the cheek to call it scabbies even tho it looked nothing like scabbies and no one else around me had caught it not even my child! So after weeks of worrying about scabbies I looked into stress rashes, as i've been going through alot and this looked exactly like mine, my body, my hands , my feet,covered in this itchy rash. So went back to doctors he finally agreed that its urticaria, so he tolsd me take 2 antihestimine citrizine, 1 in am 1 in pm, then a dose of steriods prednisole started on 8 a day, 7 a day & so on till 1 a day for 2 wks, but now my course has finished and bingo its coming up again. The steriods helped massively I only got little bits coming back, but now as i'm not on them its covering my body again, I'm still taking my citrizine tabs 2x aday. I'm gonna go back again to doctors all he keeps saying is can take up 12 months to clear and that I need to relax. Well its abit hard when lifes issues do flare up and then you've got the worry of this very annoying itchy rash which looks horrable, so how can you relax?? It is depressing me now what do I do  next in desperate need im 35yrs and going abroad for holiday in a few weeks dont want to suffer ith this.