Experience and treatment of a frightening outbreak of hives!!

If red hives-like symptoms appear on your skin, and your skin is itchy or swollen, go to the hospital immediately for diagnosis and treatment. If hives appear on the face and below the neck, it is often due to food allergies. Since it can be acute or other symptoms may be present, prompt diagnosis and treatment are important.

 

I'll share my experience and treatment story about my husband's acute hives.

My husband has allergies. He is allergic to food and pollen, and especially when he is not feeling well, his symptoms tend to become more severe. Because he has allergies, he takes allergy medication during the spring season and avoids foods that trigger his allergy symptoms. Therefore, he has not experienced significant allergy symptoms.

Please look at the photos with squinted eyes as the symptoms are severe.

 

Itchy sensation on the back appears on the day of the symptom.

 

After having dinner with friends and going to a cafe, my husband said he felt itchy right after coming home.

That day, after eating bossam (perhaps due to the herbs used when boiling the bossam), I also had coffee at a cafe, and since there was a product mixed with nuts, I suspected that might be the cause...

So, when I looked at my body, I noticed small red bumps that looked like tiny pimples gradually appearing.

 

Symptoms approximately 3 hours after returning home

 

I applied the allergy ointment I had at home, but the itching continued, and when I looked, the rash that was only on my abdomen had spread to my legs, making the symptoms more prominent.

 

Symptoms before going to the hospital the next day

 

I went to the dermatologist the very next day.

The doctor prescribed medication for hives. Even after taking the medication for two days, the symptoms did not improve and the symptoms spread more across my entire body.

He has red symptoms all over his body, swelling in his legs, dizziness, fever, cold sweat, loss of appetite, and weakness. These were his symptoms.

 

(Especially the legs are swollen and the symptoms are severe)

 

Even after taking the medication prescribed at the hospital, my symptoms worsened and spread, so I went to another dermatology clinic. Seeing that the symptoms had spread all over my body except for my face and neck, they said I was experiencing a severe food allergy.

The doctor said that if hives appear on the face and below the neck, it is often due to a food allergy.

In the case of my husband, it was acute, so the symptoms spread throughout his entire body. The symptoms appeared on his face, neck, legs, and soles of his feet. Overall, there was significant swelling and severe symptoms.

 

 

I received a steroid injection at the hospital, and they prescribed a slightly stronger medication than the initial prescription, along with ointment.

And since the symptoms on my body are severe, they told me to go straight to the university hospital if the pus happens to burst or anything.

The symptoms were spreading overall and quite severe, but fortunately after receiving a steroid injection, taking prescribed medication, and applying ointment, it stopped spreading. The next day, the red symptoms became more wine-colored, and the swelling significantly subsided.

 

 

A friend of mine is an internal medicine doctor, and after seeing the severe symptoms on my husband's body, she said that if the symptoms are very severe, it could be hives, but it could also be erythema multiforme. So, since it could be a different issue, she advised us to go to a university hospital for blood tests, urine tests, and blood work, which we did at the university hospital. In my husband's case, it was acute.

When food allergies become severe, the symptoms can be very frightening. It's not just itching on the body, but also dizziness, fatigue, and nausea, which make it even more difficult.

After receiving a steroid injection at the hospital, applying ointment, and taking medication, my symptoms have significantly improved. The redness and swelling have greatly subsided and I am recovering.

Since the symptoms were quite severe, the marks on my body from the symptoms lasted quite a long time.

It's a frightening disease.

It was so severe that I thought it might go away, but the symptoms really disappeared as if it were a lie.

 

Let's learn about hives!!

 

 

Definition:

Symptoms characterized by swelling similar to hives that appear when bitten by an insect, along with redness surrounding the area. The skin is intensely itchy, and the lesions with clear boundaries become swollen in red or white. These hives are caused by temporary swelling in the dermis of the skin due to vascular reactions.

 

Cause:

Insect bites, food allergies, medications, infections, mechanical and physical stimuli, and various other causes and mechanisms can lead to this condition. Due to these factors, various chemical mediators are released from mast cells and basophils, which act on the microvasculature of the skin, causing vasodilation and increased permeability. As a result, protein-rich exudate leaks from the blood vessels into the dermal tissue, leading to the condition. The primary chemical mediator involved is histamine. When histamine binds to receptors on the skin's microvascular vessels, redness and swelling can occur.

 

Symptoms:

Acute / Chronic
Symptoms can vary greatly depending on the triggering factors, but they can generally be divided into acute and chronic. If symptoms recur repeatedly for more than 6 weeks, it is classified as chronic; if less, it is classified as acute.

Acute symptoms often disappear after about a week. Even if food is the cause, it is broken down or excreted from the body over time. Therefore, rather than trying to find the cause, it is better to treat the symptoms of itching and swelling with appropriate administration of steroids and antihistamines.

Chronic conditions persist for a long period of more than 6 weeks, and in some cases, they continue for years. 70% of chronic patients cannot identify the cause of their symptoms. It is suggested that they are related to infections, metabolic and endocrine disorders, malignant tumors, and psychological factors. For the remaining 30%, there are reports indicating a connection with autoimmune mechanisms.