I wish I could help you, last winter, I had a bout of hives which came up anywhere on my body where elastic touched me and additionally on my breasts at night when I went to bed or whenever I bathed. NOTE---whenever my body was warm and moist. I also had a bad case of what they call winter itch on my inner thighs. NOTHING helped this until I started getting enough water. I switched laundry soap hoping the hives would stop, I stopped wearing anything with elastic and still they came up around my waist and on my back where my bra would have been. Eventually, they stopped on their own and I never figured out what got rid of them or what started them. I suspect since they only came up in places where my skin temp went up and moistened from heat, that I was releasing toxins through the skin and when they were gone, so were the hives. I tried any number of things. Tea tree oil seemed to make them flare and burn worse but they went away faster. Hope you get this figured out soon, I know how frustrating hives can be. Sorry I can't be more help.

I just read this message and my guess is something related to the candida problem as I have this condition too and had hives 2 times during these years. Once it took 3 days to clear, the second lasted only for 24 hours.
The first time I had big, swollen, itchy patches and I was scared to eat anything but grapefruit for 2 days and then it was gone. The day the hives appeared I ate some fast food with ketchup (what was very rare as I don't like fast food, I just didn't have much choice at the airport) and the next day I ate something with ketchup again and it got worst - so I guessed it was the ketchup. Don't ask me why I chose to eat grapefruit - some inner voice told me... :)
The second time was different, it started with a little redness above my belly button and then it was growing, but never became swollen, only red, and it was literally travelling all over my body, never appeared on the same place twice and it was soooooooooo itchy and nothing helped. It was gone in 24 hours and never came back (luckily :) )
For my oppinion this kind of condition is a strong signal from your body that something is not right. Be serious about getting rid of that candida and starting the cleansing programs as recommended. Also find out what is the right diet for your blood type - very important! And one more thing - on the thyroid board I've found a story about someone curing herself with a very strickt diet - the very same one we supposed to eat in case of candida!!!!! So my guess is you want to think it over about that medicine you're taking...
I hope my story helped a little. Best wishes!

Psyllium is known to cause hives in some people. Try eliminating it from your diet for a time and see if that helps.

Good luck

i wondering if anyone has found a cure if there is one?

for the past 3 years i have suffered from hives and mine sound just like everybody elses....mine started out small
i have always known not to eat shellfish or shrimp
but now it's to the point that it happens every other day.
for no unknown reason....when i worked offshore i was exposed
to alot of chemical base mud and i had no idea that i was ever allergic to anything until i started working offshore. but for the past 3 years it seems it comes and it goes i thought it was beer or chicken even but it's been a mystery to me.

mine come out during the morning, mid day and seems like it's worse
after dinner or late at night right before bed. i just hope that
this will one day go away. i'm taken allegra to control it
but as you know it's not that cheap so sometimes i just try not
to think about it and then it goes away within 30min- 1hr. but not aways sometimes it last for alittle bit longer.

help

Hi CB & all , i also face the same problem with Hives.It generally comes in the evening, morning and night.with bums on my head , shoulder...if I take zyrtec hives disappears in an 1/2 hour.This generally happenes if I eat some thing no matter what I eat.I did candida salaiva test and it seems to be candida is causing this hives.I am suffering with hives for last 2 yrs.intially I was taking benadryl, then doctor(allergy specialist prescribed me to take Zyrtech)I dont want to continue eating tons of medicine...
So i have plans to go to for a program which may reduce candida growth, which may reduce hives I am not sure.Please help..give me a solution I am very healthy person..but this hives making my life miserable... I kindly request all please give me input at my yahoo id your help will change my life.....i am very frasturated bcos of hives
God bless
panagonapi@yahoo.com

http://www.candidafree.net/pages/5/index.htm

Laura, I notice your message is pretty old, you may not check for responses anymore. You have almost described my own condition. I too take thyroid medication. Did you ever find out what was causing the hives? I am becoming desperate! Please feel free to email me.

Hi CB Could you please help me, if you have a found any solution.I Have similar problem like you exactly same problem.I am very upset and frasturated....of these things.Please help
email--- panagonapi@yahoo.com
I went to the doctor....my lab report said i have candida growth....but even after taking enzymes,probotics....etc.....for last one month but so far no improvements

hives comes and go...frequently..please help....

God bless

do you still have hives? if not how long did you have them and what made them go away. I have been suffering from the same exact thing for 13 months....and am miserable. I have tried everything and feel as if i'm going out of my mind. Please help!

Hi CB and all...Do anyone knows CB's contact information.
I am also suffering WITH HIVES and symptoms same like CB's I didn't see CB's message for a long time so wondering what happened to CB;
CB if you see this message..please reply to the forum....how u doing ?did u find any solution.....Need your help.Please help ......I request anyone to help me.....I will truly pray for everybody..who is suffering like me.

God bless.....

My email id is panagonapi@yahoo.com

By the way I am also donating money to this site may god bless all the staff working to maintain this site.

god Bless.

Howard

did anybody knows emailid of CB.I am suffering with the same symptoms CB suffered.Where is he .....atleast cure zone staff they should know.IS he DOING OK.......PLEASE RESPOND..............

THNAKS
PANAGONAPI@YAHOO.COM

I have hives really bad right now...i have had them sinces sunday...noone of them have gone away...thye just stay...and dont dissapear...they are on my legs, thighs...armrs, hands, feet, ankles, back..and my butt....nothing is helping them quit itching or go away...ive tried lotions...and also aveeno bath and stay in it for about an hour twice a day...and it dosent work. the hives are bad too most of them are really big welts that look so grose...and i cant leave my house its too embarrsing i just want them to go away!!!! im coverd in them!!! WHAT WILL WORK???????? I NEED HELP!!!!

...has had this problem for the last 5 or 6 months, whenever she gets sick and then they stay for a week after. We've gone through it about 4 times now with her. It's absolutely awful. I took pictures for the doctor because I never know if the hives are going to be there by the time it takes for them to flare up, get an appointment, drive across los angeles to our favorite pediatrician and have her looked at. It always starts with a cold or fever. She gets them after naps when she's been sweating. She gets them when she's angry - but always after some virus has come and gone. Sometimes they are there for minutes sometimes hours - sometimes it takes a whole day for them to travel through her body. This last bout has been here over a week, but the hives have been minor and short lived - I almost hopin for a big bunch so I can get her in to the doc and see what he thinks. The couple times I've called he just says - "Well - if she doesn't have them NOW, there's no reason to bring her in - just give her a little benedryl and dress her comfortably ."

I'm stuck on a reason. Here's the thing - i don't think they are a food allergy . My daughter is picky. She eats like 10 things. Oatmeal. Juice (champion fresh of course - the only way I can get spinach or carrot in her). Odwalla superfood. Soy milk. Yogurt. Raw cashews. Dried Papaya. Raisins. Applesause. Grilled cheese. PB and J and oh yeah - corn chips. We're careful about not too much dairy and buying organic and buying whole foods, no refined sugars - things like that. But at one point while she was battling the flu, she ate practically nothing for so long and still had hives! - Since it only seems to happen when she's sick - I'm thinkin it might be a compromised immune system. Does she become allergic to say soy only when she's sick? I don't know - because we switched to rice milk and she still had hives. - She was so sick with a fever she only drank OJ for 2 days - her hives her bad the entire time. She's not allergic to OJ - she has it all the time when she' s not sick - no hives. It may a vitamin deficiency - but not an allergy. I doubt it anyway. Is it Candida? Maybe. My husband and I are still working on our candida (getting our ears coned!) - though our situation is MUCH better. We don't get hives though. Why my baby? Here's the other part that gets us. We have twin daughters. The other little girl eats the same stuff - gets sick at the same time, gets the same exercise and sleep and viruses and such. She's never had a hive. She eats fish and eggs and lots of fruit though - which gets me thinkin it's a defeciency - not an allergy.

We've made a couple of realizations that might help. Adding flax oil to my daughters milk has not only improved her mood and behavior - her hive break out - this last time she was sick, was not near the condition of the last three. She seemed far less miserable and itchy. I realized that before the flax oil routine - she was not getting ANY omega 3's which are good for the brain (mood, behavior, attention span), good for the immune system, and .... for the skin. Aha! I wasn't even thinking about the hives when I started her on it. But it was a happy benefit!

Fresh air and a little sun. I turned to my baby as we were driving to the beach one day to see she had a rash of hives starting on her ankle and by the time we reached the beach they were up to her thy. One dip in the ocean and they were gone in 5 minutes. And we're talking mess o' hives in dirty Santa Monica ocean water. Salt? Seaweed? Sun? Something worked. But I can't take her to the ocean every time she has a breakout. And there isn't an ocean every where there's hives right?

Mood and comfort. She gets hives when she's sick, sweaty, or cranky (maybe she's cranky cuz of the hives?) Anyway. I'm always trying to dress her warm and she's alway telling me "no" to sweats and jackets. Now I'm starting to listen. The Flax oil has made such a difference in her mood - I hardly see her full on cranky anymore. But I've noticed if she wakes up happy - no hives. If she wakes up cranky - she has them or they're on their way.

Canduella lotion has helped with the itch and flare. We use California baby brand on her. It makes her comfortable at least. She calls it her "medicine".

Good luck to everyone. Hives are frustrating and no one seems to have an answer.

What follows is an excerpt from a post on earthclinic. I hope it helps.

Lysine: "I think she would take 2 in the morning and 2 at night. They started going away immediately and she's even off the L-lysine now and hasn't had a recurrance in over two years! She had my grandfather use it and it worked for him too." (posting on earthclinic.com)

Note: Lysine is cheaper and easier to take if you buy the powder and just take a spoonfull of it. No taste, easier than taking tablets. Lysine is a very safe amino acid with strong anti-viral properties.

My son (then 7 years old) developed excercised induced uticaria, (hives). What works for him is a cool shower immediately, as soon as possible when the hives appear.

My son developed hives for the first time when he was given Amantadine, (an anti-viral drug). Now anytime he is overheated or sweaty, he has hives.

I think the amantadine upset some type of viral balance in his gut. This would explain why some hives respond to vinegar and baking soda, and garlic, (all mild antivirals). It would also explain why in a previous post one twin had hives and the other does not, (it is not hereditary) but it can be found in families, (as viri can be transmitted).

Hope this helps someone. I will be starting my son on the lysine. Summer will be miserable for him if I don't do something.
GLTA

Diane.

I just had a recent outbreak of hives in a big way after taking 1- 50 billion probiotic cap that i used to normally take with no hive problems until now.

I am not one that this type of things happens too very often so Im taking it more serious now & trying to learn as much as I can on the allergic reaction I had.

I took the capsule from the fridge at 2 am on an empty stomach as usual which works well for me in the past. This time within 20 minutes I started to break out on my arms & both legs around my crotch but only on my upper legs.

The rash was bad on arms but the legs were so bad they looked like burn sacs but with no pain thank God & no rash. The rash was worse on my arms.

I was also super lucky not to have an anaphalactic reaction as well so that was a major issue in my mind if it would happen or not.

Anyhow I knew not to scratch too much so I had a hot bath to ease the itching & then took 1000 MG of Magnesium!

I consumed some lime juice & h20 plus tried to relax my every being & allow my body to heal itself as I fell asleep ( also due to me taking magnesium) once the histamine levels are normalized.

So less than 24 hrs later I am normal except for a few small spots that itch a little but the rashes are gone & no more bumps or signs of the Hives . Its wild!!

So if u are always suffering from your histamine levels being messed up u need to take at least 500mg of Magnesium to start with. See what type your body prefers & qty where it will help normalize your system.

Sounds like u r laking in MINERALS & not just magnesium!!

Vit d is good plus Krill oil as well.

The key though is the MG!!

Its VIP for 300+- factors in making your body work properly & most people are mg deficient, so see what it does for u.

If u have hives all the time your immune system is obviously lacking or it needs some key ingredient(s), so work on that.

Sounds like u know your body & research alot but u need to work on your immunity more imo.

It could be multiple things. Candida and systemic parasites. Take 1000 mg of l-lysine twice a day and I recommend doing a activated charcoal detox before. Charcoal absorbs toxins, poison and all sorts of unwanted mineral in your system Don't take any medication two hours after. I would also try a parasite cleanse.