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Urticaria (Hives) is a complex subject, there are many different triggers and causes and there is some remarkably altered biochemistry about which much technical detail has been published and is readily available for those who want to know about it. I want to say just a little that I can speak from personal, practical experience. |
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The first thing to say is that no two people with Hives are the same. Some health problems show up regular and repeated patterns and after a while you learn to recognize the ‘terrain’ of the condition. Hives are not so obliging. I have met enough people who have hives to say that there is very little rhyme or reason to what else may be going on to make any sweeping generalizations about ‘who’ gets hives.
That said, there are several strategies that have regularly proved very helpful for most.
Nettles is the first treatment to try for hives and how incongruous a recommendation this is! One of the common names for hives is ‘nettle rash’! Exposure to the stinging hairs of the nettle plant is a well-known trigger for hives because the nettle's tiny hairs contain actual histamine that they inject into the skin of anyone who gets close enough. However when the herb has been harvested and dried the histamine content becomes next to non-existent and what remains are a number of other substances that obviously help to heal hives and to break the allergy process.
This is by no means the case for everyone with Hives but it has cropped up often enough that it should at least be looked at as a potential underlying cause. Food allergy and intolerance is a complex subject itself. In people I have worked with it is not that the foods themselves causing the Hives but rather an immune hyperactivity that’s happening associated to a low grade intolerance of commonly eaten foods that sets the stage for the person to then get their Hives triggered off by something else.
Vitamin C seems to help people too, albeit high doses are required. I use a powdered and buffered vit C and will get people to trial one full tsp of the powder (diluted and drunk with water) two times a day for up to a week to see if it makes an obvious difference. |
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