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The World’s Weirdest Allergies.

Exercise, sunlight, water, vibration, money, red meat. All real, all rare, and all explained by the same confused immune system.
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Hives Versus Angioedema.

Both are welts from histamine. Hives sit on the surface of the skin. Angioedema swells beneath it, usually around the eyes and lips, and can reach the throat.
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Why Some People Are More Allergic.

One allergic parent gives you about a 50 percent chance. Two give you 75. Then gender, smoke, eczema and how clean your childhood was all weigh in.
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Jobs That Are Hard On Allergies.

Veterinary clinics, landscaping, salons, housekeeping. Some workplaces are built out of allergens. Here is what helps, and what helps more.
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Cold, Flu, Or Allergies?

Same runny nose, sneezing and cough. Different causes, different durations, different treatments. Three questions sort it out.
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Tired? It Could Be Allergies.

A stuffy nose ruins sleep, the medication for it makes you drowsy, and the immune system burns energy fighting pollen all day. Fatigue is an allergy symptom.
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About these articles

Written From The Exam Room.

Our founder spent more than thirty years in private allergy practice before starting AllergyEasy.These pieces began as his blog and have been updated and consolidated. Each one ends the same way, because the question underneath most of them is the same: can this allergy be treated, not just managed? Usually, yes.Nothing here replaces a conversation with your own physician.
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Tell them apart

Surface Or Deep.

Hives (urticaria)Raised, red or flesh-colored, intensely itchy welts from a pencil dot to a dinner plate, anywhere on the body. Usually gone within a day.
AngioedemaSwelling in deeper skin layers that feels thick, firm and sometimes warm or painful. Favors the eyes, cheeks, lips, hands and feet.
EmergencySwelling of the tongue or throat can block the airway. Use epinephrine if prescribed and call emergency services.
Acute Under Six Weeks · Chronic Beyond
Causes

Usually Allergy. Sometimes Something Else.

Foods, medications, latex, pet dander, pollen and insect stings are the common allergic triggers.Hives and angioedema can also accompany thyroid disease, lupus and other immune disorders, and rarely some cancers. A hereditary form of angioedema stems from a missing blood protein and needs its own treatment. Chronic or recurring cases deserve a workup rather than another antihistamine.Cold urticaria, hives from cold air or water, is an uncommon but real variant.
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When It Keeps Coming Back.

Antihistamines and creams calm a flare. They do not change an allergy that keeps triggering it.If testing links your hives or angioedema to pollens, dander, dust, mold or foods, allergy drops treat that allergy at home. Patients with chronic hives often find the flares thin out as the underlying allergy settles.
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