Being a mom can be exhausting under the best of circumstances. Being a mom with chronic illness has it’s own set of challenges. Mom guilt is sure to rear it’s ugly head in the chronically ill. Chronic Urticaria affects approximately 1.6 million people in the United States and women are twice as likely to have…
The agony of chronic urticaria is real and keeping our hormones in check is essential. In my battle with chronic hives I have had a lot of issues pop up that I didn’t realize could contribute to my symptoms. One of these is the relationship between hormonal imbalance and chronic hives. Estrogen Dominance could have…
Does Drinking Celery Juice Help Hives? This is a question that I get a lot. The craze started with self-proclaimed medical medium Anthony Williams who claims to get his knowledge from the spirit world. His recommendation is to drink 16 ounces of celery juice on an empty stomach every day and it will alleviate chronic…
It is estimated that between 0.23% and 1.8% of the population in the U.S. and internationally suffer from Chronic Urticaria. Women are affected about twice as often as men. Though the cause is unknown, the most common hypothesis is that Chronic Urticaria relates to autoimmune dysfunction involving autoantibodies that target IgE receptors to activate histamine…
Recently I was thinking about what it was like for me before I had my symptoms under control. It took me years to get a diagnosis and proper treatment. Some of the things people said during that time were so hurtful. It made me think that I must be crazy. My diagnosis was validating and…
Less than one percent of the population is burdened with this condition. Labeled “idiopathic” because the cause is unknown, Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (also known as chronic spontaneous urticaria) is much more than a skin condition. Many with Chronic Urticaria (hives) also have an accompanying autoimmune disease and it is thought to have an autoimmune component…