Your Christmas can literally be ruined if you are suffering from hives food allergy or hives skin allergy.

If it has happened this time, you better take precautions so that it does not happen again.

Raised red or pale yellow wheals, sometimes surrounded by an inflated border on the skin might be a sign of hives food allergy. Though hives can also develop due to non-allergic causes, hives skin allergy  in response to an allergic reaction is more common.

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Did you know that stress can cause hives?

Hives usually results from an allergic process but the cause can also be non-allergic, for instance stress. Hives and stress have a close relation.

Emotional stress can trigger some immunological changes in the mast cells which release histamines into the skin upon being disturbed and may lead to hives. However, long-drawn-out or extreme stress may be responsible for chronic hives.

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Well ask this question to a person who is suffering from this annoying skin problem and he will give you a better answer.

However, if you ask me, the simple answer is they are ugly looking and more than painful.

A hives rash is a skin condition marked by red spots on different areas of skin. Hives rashes can be a constant pain in the neck for the patient. Their color and size varies greatly; color can be pale pink and size can range from a pin head up to a few mm.

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What REALLY Causes Your Urticaria (Hives)?

We are taught to believe that  urticaria is caused (or triggered)  by a specific source or allergen, such as perfume, dust mites, Hairspray, Nuts, Solvents, Tight clothing, Pressure, Cheeseor your dog. Actually after going through all the patch testing and meeting some of the top dermatologists in and outside my country I have come to the following conclusion:

I am not allergic to ANYTHING !

So why do we have these Urticaria attacks?

Well, the simple answer is that we have an overactive immune system! Our immune system “freaks out” when it meets specific allergens but we are NOT allergic!

What does this mean?