Pretty please Help with Hives question! Driving me crazy!!!!

I don't know about poison ivy. I know we have it in that area. I walked thru ash that day. Not sure if it is still potent in ash. None of the vines were out yet. Too early. The doc said they were hives. They are def hives, until I itch them. They come and go also. Driving me nuts. No fluid pustule. It itched and when scratched it turned to white welts.... Just like hives look. Just not the seriously long deep welt in a serious reaction.

We are really rooting for you, PENG.
That itching should go away NOW
and a clear cause emerge so you don't have to play detective.

My daughter had poison ivy from track and field. They ran over a newly mown field, and it started to itch that night.

Another daughter was treated for hives. No improvement. She got a sort of reddish look to her, and allover tiny bumps.
It was panfollicutis,
an all-over infection in her body's hair follicles.

Go figure. That went away just fine with an antibiotic.

the daughter with the poison ivy had an allover rash when she was six weeks old.
it was terrible to look at.
The on-call doc that weekend put her on 5 meds.

on Monday, our own doctor took her off all the meds and told us it would go away. It did.

Last Edited by beeches on 04/28/2013 05:16 PM

Thanks a bunch. I think my stress is making it worse for sure.

break open garlic capsule and rub on,garlic kills the hives virus,3 times a day.

Really thanks for responding. It can go one way or another here. Lol. I just roll with the punches and hope brief doesn't find me. ;).


Here is a pic I pulled off the net. It's not me, but def the welts I have look similar to that. [link to img18.imageshack.us]

Low thyroid? On synthroid for that. Idk. It could be anything and I don't know what to do first. :(.

Vitamin C? I have tons of that. I could take that.


Medical disclaimer..,, lol. I hold no one accountable for their advice other than myself.

Your low thyroid could be a symptom of something else going on with your health.

What's your diet like? Look there first.

I don't know if this has been suggested yet, as I didn't read every reply. My doctor always suggest taking a OTC Pepcid, (I hope I can say that). As a teen I used to break out in hives at random times, places on my body, doctor after doctor couldn't give me a good reason. Allergies of some sort. I'm apparently allergic to everything outside, but not all the time, just sometimes. Crazy huh? Take the allergy meds and Pepcid, he says if your body is breaking out on the outside, your tummy is doing the same. It works for me, maybe it will work for you! Good luck, and try to relax, stress seems to make it worse! Oh and my husband gets poison oak/ivy if he is even near the stuff. He is highly allergic, he gets a steroid shot and takes the Pepcid as well, per docs "theory". Like I said, if its happening on the surface it's also happening internally as well.

Use corticosteroid cream
Apply cool compresses to the affected areas
Bathe in Epsom salts or baking soda
Soak in colloidal oatmeal baths
Apply baking soda paste to the rash (made by stirring water into baking soda until it reaches a paste-like consistency)
Use an anti-itch lotion

I never had a thyroid problem until I had my first baby. They call it something... When hormones go out of whack and don't go back to normal after you give birth. That's how I got it. That was about 13 years ago. My temp is alway 97.3-97.6. A bit lower than normal.

I don't know. I had a lot going on the week I got them. Lots of stress, bad UTI, bad fire in woods which I walked thru the next day, antibiotics. God only knows. I just wish it would go away.

Love your disclaimer. OK, so low thyroid is hypothyroid which is mostly caused by hashimoto, which is an autoimmune disease.

When you are autoimmune, you have a th1/th2 immune system imbalance.. These imbalances make you more likely you be allergic and also make hives.


"An autoimmune condition occurs when one branch of the immune system over dominates another branch. This is called an either a Th1 or Th2 dominance. A dominant TH1 response means that the natural killer cells and cytotoxic t cells are responsible for attacking the body, while a TH2 dominance indicates that your bcells and antibodies are mounting the attack. A blood test is needed to find out which branch is dominant. Thus to treat an autoimmune disease, it is critical to find the dominant branch and to balance the seesaw by stimulating the other branch. For example, if a patient’s autoimmune disease was TH1 dominant, treating it would require that we strengthen the Th2 side to balance out the immune system. If the patient were Th2 dominant, we would stimulate the Th1 side to regain balance. It’s a pretty simple solution, but so many people suffer needlessly because the immune system has been ignored, until now.

This is where clinical nutrition and natural medicine comes into play. It is well documented in clinical research that Th1 stimulants are Echinacea, maitake mushrooms and golden seal to name a few. Th2 stimulators are caffeine, green tea, and grape seed extract. So in the example I gave in the previous slide, if a patient with an under functioning thyroid is TH1 dominant, then I would prescribe supplements containing caffeine, green tea, and grape seed extract to stimulate the TH2 side to regain balance. If they were TH2 dominant, then Echinacea, mushrooms, and golden seal would balance out their immune system. Since most people with autoimmune conditions have no idea which branch of their immune system is dominant, they can actually make their condition worse by taking over the counter immune boosters. Lets say for example you were Th1 dominant and you catch a cold. A friend tells you that Echinacea helped them so you take it yourself. Unknowingly you would be flaring up your already dominant Th1 response and cause even more destruction to your thyroid gland


[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[link to www.meta-ehealth.com]


Long story short, you probably want to work on the immune system. I find thymus gland, earth dragon and low dose naltrexone the best ways.

Good luck@

Oh and vitamin C will work short term, since it deals with histamine.

Thanks! I have the coconut oil. I will do that NOW! I just dont understand why they haven't gone away after three weeks! what is in my body??? that is creating them. :(


I am having the SAME exact problem, it's driving me mad!! have been researching " Candida ". Seems doctors commonly misdiagnose dermatitis without considering this... Sorry, I can't post link from here, but Google "dermatitis and candida" , you'll get tons of info to choose from.

I'm going to do a separate post soon about this stuff:

Raising glutathione levels will help will all kinds of deficiencies and diseases.

[link to anniem.max4u.com]

Look for Cellgevity as it has all that you need.

Re: Glutathione and Allergies:

[link to www.pointofreturn.com]

Take probiotics from the health food store, immediately, and don't stop.

THIS ^!!!! Grandma, same thing. There is a very high correlation of Prednisone and Cipro complications---benadryl over time adds to this complication.

Bottom line, it is a clear case of a lowered immune system.

Check out Low Level Naltrexone. It works...for most all...
Tricks increased growth hormone and just about all other hormones and their functions which are directed by the brain control center. Few side effects compared to the extant symptoms.

It is a new idea which the pharmacuitcals have dissed as it works, is relatively cheap and almost generic.

HA! I got everyone here beat. I got the hives when I was pregnant with both my children! Turns out I was allergic to being pregnant actually! I had them on my hands and feet. for some reason hot water makes them itch even more. You will scratch yourself raw if you don't get something for it. They gave me Benadryl back then, they cleared up as soon as the children were born, both times.
My doctor swears he's never known a woman who was actually allergic to being pregnant!

google baking soda and hives

Went through something similar last year. cortizone cream few times a day, lightly, allergy pill daily, plenty of water, and don't itch!

Itching seems to make it take longer to go away. Cold washcloth as needed.

Time is the only thing that really works, your system has to get whatever you reacted to, out of your system. And for a while your system will be over-reactive, so the hives may come and go randomly. It took about a month to clear out of me, and happened to me twice, becuase I didn't believe the lotion I had used was truly the culprit...until I used it again! The second time was so much worse!
I should have gone directly to the hospital, but I had a pack of predinsone pills I didn't use the first time around, so I took them within hours. Still, after 5 days of those pills, my arms were heavily covered in hives and swollen to the point of skin stretching in pain.

Time healed it.

OMG that would be awful! The whole pregnancy?! I need to count my blessings then. Lol.

Why??? This is the part I don't understand! The doc said because I was on cipro two weeks before and then a larger dose for another 10 days, it's messed up my system because of the bacteria. What does this have to do with hives? And is this serious???

Shouldn't my docs know to check for this? They put me on the synthroid. I'm on .75 mcg. But it keeps tsh at about 1-2. I don't know the other numbers. Anyway, thanks for that info! I am going to print it for reference later. I. Am. Desperate. Lol.


Btw my helpful friends, I'm coming back tomorrow to send out some karma. I ran out! Thank you so much!


I'm curious about the yeast over growth and hives. I don't know what tat means and if its dangerous!

Last Edited by PENG on 04/28/2013 08:15 PM

Use cornstarch like baby powder on your hives...keep it on and apply frequently for several days. It will work.

"Candida" = yeast. getting lots of good info from this post, btw. Hope the itching eases up very soon, best wishes for good health!

Have you checked your PH level?

My mother broke out in hives often, and her research led her to finding out that she had a very acidic body, which caused a lot of problems, hives included.

I would seriously consider getting some ph strips and testing your urine. I don't have any links for you but you can find many grocery store remedies that can get your body in balance.

I have had that kind of reaction to antibiotics a couple of times -- it does sound like allergic hives (not likely serum sickness, which I have also had -- you generally get a fever and terrible body pain with that.)

For itching, the best thing in the world is a paste of baking soda and water -- put it right on the itchy areas ... it's messy, but it kills the itch almost immediately.

Try not to scratch, avoid tight clothing (pressure makes hives want to pop back up) and take an antihistamine regularly. Drink a lot of water -- that helps. You can add natural apple cider vinegar into your water which helps a bit, too.

Bathing in water with colloidal oatmeal and/or baking soda helps a lot if you have a bathtub.

Took about a month for mine to really go away -- they popped up episodically for weeks, any time something irritated the area (heat, sun, pressure) -- it's miserable, and I am sorry you are going through this.

I had the same condition years ago. My doc had me take benedryll and the prednisone dose pack. The dose pack is for six days.
Best of luck.

i know what u talkin bout
i had hives on my inner thighs

#1 baby oil! helped with the itching and prevented the scratching from making it worse

half water/ half hydrogyn peroxide spray

rubbing alcohol
apple cider vinegar

fast for a few days

probiotics help, that's for real,
duh, you took antibiotics (anti life),
i think that's how i got my problem,
so take probiotics (pro life)
or some real yogurt/ keifer or both

cold showers (i took a lot)

this also may have helped a lot - sweating!
i got a job in a warehouse (during the summer) a couple of months after having this problem, which was still lingering, and i did a hella lot of sweating!
(i was also drinking a lot of gatorade and powerade,
so maybe that'll help?)

distilled water (a gallon a day)

pray

I can do this. They sell them at the pharmacy here.

I am going crazy. Mainly because something is wrong in my body obviously and I can't figure it out. I placed another call to the doc today.


Coconut oil worked better than the Benadryl cream. Thank god. But they still are popping up. I am taking the acidophilus powder now. I also poured apple cider vinegar after my shower. Nice smell. Lol.

I stopped 5ks thinking the heat was bothering it..... Doesn't matter. Still popping up either way. Erg. :(


Thanks for your help! If I figure it out, I'll let ya know.

Last Edited by PENG on 04/29/2013 01:43 PM