{"id":1775,"date":"2014-01-04T18:09:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T18:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urticariahivestreatment.com\/Blog\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2011-12-24T18:15:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T18:15:15","slug":"hives-nervousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urticariahivestreatment.com\/Blog\/hives-nervousness.html","title":{"rendered":"If You Have Hives, Nervousness Can Be The Cause Of Either Acute Or Chronic Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

If a person experiences persistent hives, nervousness<\/strong><\/a> should be at the top of the suspect list if an obvious physical allergen isn\u2019t present. Recent research has shown a pretty clear connection between anxiety and hives.<\/p>\n

It is known fact that anxiety does cause a physiological response. The body detects stress or even fear and activates the sympathetic nervous system. This alone can be enough to cause an acute outbreak of hives. Nervousness throws the body into the \u201cfight or flight\u201d mode to some degree or another. This fight or flight manifests in the body by opening up blood vessels almost immediately in a stressful situation. Histamine release in the small blood vessels around the mast cells of the skin causes the blotchy appearance in some people of hives. Nervousness either can cause this or even worse, can kind of snowball on itself where the anxiety causes the hives, nervousness increases and makes the hives worse, which in turn makes the anxiety level kick up even another notch.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>Chronic Stress Related Hives Is Even Tougher To Beat<\/h2>\n

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With chronic hives, nervousness can be even more of both a problem and a cause. The stress builds on itself as the person deals with the physical and visible symptoms of the hives. Hardly anyone can avoid being self-conscience when a large part of their body, especially the facial or neck areas are covered with unsightly red splotches that case them to itch. They become aware of the constant itching as well, and how that looks so try to avoid it, which makes them even more anxious. With chronic hives, nervousness and anxiety levels go up almost daily until resolves. Some of the things that add stress to the chronic hives sufferer are:<\/p>\n