New drugs are being used to cause remission of CU.
Posted Sep 24, 2018 by 6000
There really doesn't seem to be any. Take antihistamines, be careful of anaphylaxis. Some people with extreme cases are given the option of desensitisation, but this has never been mentioned to me.
The allergy medicine Xyzal has been found to have an affect of general Urticaria and I've heard of the shot Xolair being used to treat Cold Urticaria, but I have never had the shot myself.
I have used Xyzal when I got in a pool and did not have a single hive on me.
Parents noticed my hives at age 5. Got several allergy tests, including food tests. I remember at one time they thought I was allergic to hotdogs. Somehow they figured it out.
At age 14 I hopped out of a pool and had welts all over my body. My uncle (a Dr) said it looked like Raynaud's disease. Later a skin speciliast diagnosed it as Cold Urticaria. I tried anti-histamines for a while but hated the side effects. I prefer t...
i didn't experience any symptoms of cold urticaria until I was 8 years old. I grew up in Upstate Ny and spent a lot of time playing outside and in the snow. The first time I ever had a reaction, I was sledding with a few friends, and went inside and ...
I've had OCD my whole life, but when I was 7 or 8, I started getting constant headaches. I went to lots of doctors, and they still can't figure out why I get so much unbearable headaches. Around the same time, I developed Cold Urticaria