Okay, let me first say that I'm not a Dr. or in anyway related to a medical field. I'm just a mother with a daughter who has suffered from chronic hives for two years. While on one of my endless quests, searching for answers on the internet, I came upon a website that gave me promise.

On a scale of 1 to 10, my daughters hives where a 9. After taking this formula, in three days, she was a 2 and has had several hive free days. She's a bit lazy and doesn't follow through with the formula as regular as she should, but I have to say, it's working! She's taking 1/2 tsp of aluminum free baking soda and mixing it w/ 2 Tbs of Organic Apple cider Vinegar. Adds warm water and drinks it 2x's a day.
Then,
she has to make a cup of green tea, blends it with 1 clove of raw garlic, & 1/2" raw Echinacea root and 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper. Drinks it at least once a day, preferably 2x's a day. This tastes awful, so honey and lemon help, but it's worth the taste for the results.
To stop her itching, we're using a live Aloe Vera Plant. It not only stops itching almost completely, it's not greasy and it's not a drug.
For maintenance and to boost the immune system, she's taking Colostrum in a suppliment form. She also needs to take a suppliment called Miracle Mineral Supplement. She hasn't done it yet, but it's on the 'to get' list.
If anyone else has tried this formula, I'd love to hear from you.

Good luck!
Linda

i have exercise induced urticaria and it isnt nice everytime i go somewhere i come out in these hives i cant even go up the road without it coming out, so i understand how you feel, i am on rather high doses of anti histamines, this still doesnt settle it down alot, because i am understand i consultant at the hospital and he said there are many trails but it cases of weather your doctors know about them, i have only just started these trails but will inform you if anything works out.

I have had chronic uticaria for 37 years.... I have aquagenic hives (break out when I get wet), pressure hives (hives when scratched or pressure is put on my skin) and allergic hives (caused by scented soaps). I get hives everyday. I use Zyrtec. I still get hives but not nearly as bad as before Zyrtec.

I'm not a doctor either, but I don't think enough is known about urticaria because I really think it's different from chronic "hives," and not something that should be lumped in with hives. It's more like asthma. It's a physical allergy and it comes as an attack, usually out of the blue, and doesn't last very long--maybe a day at best? At least in my experience. I wish there was a support group for people with urticaria. It comes on as an attack, usually brought about by some kind of trigger. For me the trigger is exercise. Stress can also be a trigger. It is not something that lasts days and days or months and months. It is an attack, very intense, and once you stop whatever it is that is the trigger, it quickly fades. However if you don't get it treated it does stair-step and get progressively worse with every attack until it becomes what I have Anaphylaxis urticaria.

My doctor says its chronic uticara , too, but I stay on antihistamines two of them to help with the itching and them coming out. Good luck..

You can find more about this in the Dermatographism forum/discussion board. I've been on there for many years. Still no real answers. :( I've taken several drugs for it and they work pretty well - not 100% - but good enough to function without losing your mind! Currently I'm on Zyrtek. Over the last 3 days I've tried stopping it and taking ibuprofen as an experiment after reading about the correlation between itching and pain. I itch but then I get red and it burns too! That seemed to work pretty well (not better than Zyrtek) but by just last night I could not sleep for itching so badly! I finally got up to take Zyrtek, which does not work fast for me, and waited, still itching at 4:30am I got up and drank a glass of Yoohoo chocolate drink and almost instantly stopped itching and fell right to sleep! Explain that one! Haha! Could it have something to do with blood sugar or something in the digestive system? The mystery continues......

I don't know if that's true--that urticaria is hives. I have exercise induced urticaria that, because I ignored it, morphed into anaphalaxis urticaria. The hives only last a few hours, are very intense, and I also get sick to my stomach, burning hands and feet, numb face, lips, and my ears plug up. I have to take meds for the rest of my life and it means I can't have my core temperature warm up--that's what triggers the attacks.

If urticaria literally means hives, it means what i initially had was just exercise induced hives. But I didn't have just hives. I was throwing up sick to my stomach, hot hands and feet, and hives over most of my body. It was horrible. I can't even imagine having hives that last for weeks. If the kind that last long term are as miserable as the kind I'd get with my attacks--yuck!!! :(

Oh. NOw I see I replied on this topic already once before. My apologies. I didn't realize this was an revived topic!

I have had chronic uticaria off and on for 15 years. Hives covering my entire body and had anaphylactic shock 5 different times and was hospitalized. Hives don't always mean allergies, I don't have allergies. I was recently diagnosed with CVID. Don't gives up on going to doctors. You know your body, it took me years to get diagnosed! Good luck!

The treatment for urticaria requires being addressed at the very root of the disease. Urticaria being an immunological disorder, the treatment must target the correction of the immune system in such a way that the hypersensitive behind urticaria is taken care of; and the body does not react the way it does with the disease of urticaria, & through homeopathy treatment of urticaria, it can be cured. Homeopathic treatment is the most effective treatment for urticaria.
To know more visit :http://bit.ly/2cfbqhP

I have had chronic uticaria for two years and I went to a immunologist and was put on three medications and it has changed my life from urticaria everyday to none at all so there is a way I been to 15 doctors and finally found relief.
I take 2 cetirize one in the morning and one at night
I take 2 ranitidine one in the morning and one at night
I take 1 Montelukast sod at bedtime
and I have not have any out breaks for a month
Hope this helps anyone who suffers like I was because it get bad I know and been there