What is Hives
Urticaria or hives is a relatively common form of allergic reaction that causes raised red skin welts. Urticaria is also known as nettle rash or uredo. These welts can range in dia...
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Hello everyone just wanted to know if anyone has had any sucess stories about chronic hives I just been suffering for about 3 months now is it really true this can last for years? Hope some one has any good advice besides just taking anti histamines and steroids. So tired of itching I am taking a supplement now called neem but seems like not much help I also read taking fish oil helps. Will start that soon. I am feeling really hopeless because been tested for a aray of things everything from lyme, parasites, thyroid count less other things even helibactor, don't know what esle to do it except wait it out and hope that this will stop on it own. does it just disappear one day out of the blue hope so please anyone who can give me any advice on chronic hives feels like can't live life.. constantly itching all day everyday kinda like suffering day by day can't play sports can't work without going crazy from itching good grief i fell hopeless.
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Hi. I had chronic hives about 10 years ago. They lasted for 3 long torturous years. I was on every kind of antihistamine, steroids and other things. I used to lay on my couch covered in ice packs. One day it stopped! Unfortunately, now they have been back for 5 weeks since I had bronchitis and took antibiotics for 3 weeks. I hope I'll have better luck this time. But, until 5 weeks ago, I would say I have had great success. Keep hoping. 
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I started with hives about 2 months ago and had them very bad for about a month. I was taking antihistamines and prednisone and they still wouldn't go away completely. As soon as I would stop with either, they would be back, full force.
Then I was doing some research for a friend that has LUPUS (also an auto-immune disorder), and found that many people have had luck with probiotics and stomach enzymes for auto-immune disorders, including hives. I started taking probiotics I got from a friend who is a nutritionist (Qivana) and after 8 days I was hive free and wasn't taking anything... no antihistamines, nothing but the Qivana and my regular vitamin supplements (including FISH OIL and CoQ10). Because I read that digestive enzymes, in combination with probiotics, also help (and that they can help you lose weight too), I got some of those from a health food store the 2nd week (Whole Foods). It has now been 3 weeks and I am, for the most part, hive free. I have had a few mornings when I woke up "blotchy" but no itching, and only twice have the hives had swelling. I did take one antihistamine each of those times, and those were the only two times in the 3 weeks I have needed to. I posted more info here... http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Lup... i kind of got slammed because Qivana is a "direct sales" product... but read, I'll leave it to you to have an open mind, or not, and to do you own research, make your own decision. You can get free samples on my web site though if you want to try a couple of weeks worth to see if they help you (they only charge shipping). http://www.MyQivana.com/healthycon... I can also send you extensive PDF documents on the research behind each product, the manufacturing process, etc.
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