Does Someone Develop Hives? Posted: 03-08-06 10:21am
Or is it something you are born with? I
am 44 years old and never had an allergy,
that I was aware of. 2 months ago I got
a break out of what I am now being told
are hives, the symptoms have turned up
mainly on my lower legs but they are in my
ears, on my nose, head, chest, stomach
shoulders, they are not severe from what
i've seen and heard from others who got
hives. There are olny 2 things that are
out of the ordinary that I can see.
2 months ago, my fish store did not
have the particular fish which I would
normally eat twice weekly so I bought
croaker one week and then tilapia more
recently, also we changed detergent for
the same reason, I have no idea if any of
these were the cause as I have used this
same detergent before in the past and
while I don't eat either the croaker or
tilapia often, I have had them all through
my life and never a problem. Yesterday
too, I ate the brunswick sardine from the
can which I have been eating on a regular
basis for a while now and this too I have
been eating since I was a child but
yesterday I noticed that my hives were
itching a lot, have I suddenly developed
an allergy to seafood in general or the
detergent?
Can anyone shed any light on this
subject please? Thanks.
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fatfamily02
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 3050 Location: Georgia, USA
Posted: 03-08-06 10:31am
I have had hives all my life and for many
different reasons. I have never
associated them to anything I eat though.
I first got them in high school from my
nerves. They put me on tranquilizers.
I get them when something is going on in
my body. Like after mri one time, got
them so bad they coulda just shot me and
got it over with. It was horrible.
I had a heart attack in 2003, and they did
an angioplasty--with a stent---and I had
hives for 1 year. And still today if I
have any heart pains I get the hives. I
think my body is mad at me.
I have gotten swollen lip from certain
foods, like lemon pie filling, fresh
pineapples, fresh coconut. So, I dont
call it hives neccessarily--just my lips
swell a little. And pears too, every
since my heart attack.
My hives start itching first---then kinda
bumps come up--and if it is really bad the
million bumps turn into bid fat welts(sp)
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mike12
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 4
Posted: 03-14-06 10:44am
What I would like to know is once you get
hives in the way that I have, what happens
next? Does the itching and bumps go away
by itself or do you have to do something
in particular to get rid of the symptoms?
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fatfamily02
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 3050 Location: Georgia, USA
Posted: 03-14-06 12:49pm
When I get them from my nerves---the
tranquilizers helped, but a lot of the
times I did not have the
tranquilizers--and they do eventually go
away. Usually by the next day mine are
completely gone. Unless something
happens to trigger them again.
Anti-anxiousness pills worked too. For
mine--prolly depends on what your triggers
are though.
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mike12
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 4
Posted: 03-16-06 07:27am
Yesterday I washed my bed sheets with the
same "tide" detergent and immediately upon
going to bed my skin from head to toe felt
like it was on fire, this was the very
first time that I have ever felt my skin
react like this, like I was saying in my
first post, I have been eating fish all my
life so I don't suspect that the change in
any particular fish would be the cause
here so seeing what has transpired here
now, can I assume that is really was the
change in detergent which brought about
the hives?
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fatfamily02
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 3050 Location: Georgia, USA
Posted: 03-16-06 12:31pm
My x father in law had that problem. Had
to use arm n hammer detergent. And this
was not something he was born with --it
developed later in his life. But he
would break out from head to toe.
Yes, I guess it could be from the tide.
You could try arm n hammer, or some kind
of baby detergent like downy, or dreft.
They are very gentle.
