Reoccurrences of Hives

Thursday, August 20, 2009, 23:42
Asthma
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Andrew:

If [hives is] a chronic condition, how [often] might some people be getting this?

Dr. Goodman:

Many patients [with] chronic hives – those that last longer than six weeks – suffer on a daily basis. They may be more symptomatic at certain times of [the] day than others, but generally they suffer on a daily basis. So it’s a potentially debilitating chronic illness.

Andrew:

And would these be on your back, on your trunk? Where would you get them on your body?

Dr. Goodman:

All over. All exposed and exterior skin surfaces. And many patients will have them on the mucous membrane surfaces, such as in the upper airway or in the urethra. So, it can be a very widespread, generalized type of rash or eruption and, again, very devastating.

Andrew:

Now, is this something that could begin at any time of your life?

Dr. Goodman:

Hives do appear at any time of life. If you want to really segment out which part of the population is more prone to individual kinds of hives, children and young adults tend to get transient, time-limited, acute hive exacerbations that typically last for just a few days to a few weeks.

Whereas middle-aged women are the group we see more often with chronic hives.

If you want to separate out in terms of the triggers for hives, in children we see that acute respiratory or other viral infections are the most common cause of hives, and far outnumber cases of even food-triggered allergic hives in childhood.

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