Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Niacin, Thiamine and Cholinergic Urticaria Hives

[shbrown]

I joined this forum because a member of my family is suffering from hives.

I used vitamins to dramatically improve my health and decided, like Ben, to share my knowledge on the internet.  I blog about vitamins.

Vitamin D proved critical to improving my immunity to respiratory infections and other illnesses.  I'm a research scientist and used the access I have to scientific search engines to study up on vitamin D and other vitamins.

I get into the sunshine for between 10 and 40 minutes between 11 and 1 (mid day) most sunny days.  It is so important to my health that I've been doing this in the winter.  I have only the faintest tan as I am making an effort to maximize vitamin D production in my skin.  I started using vitamin D 2.5 years ago and I believe that I still have not achieved full benefit.  Vitamin therapy acts slowly and requires patience.

While researching and using vitamins, I noticed that vitamin C, niacin (vitamin B3) and vitamin D had been particularly effective.  These three vitamins are associated with the named pandemic deficiency diseases scurby, pellegra, and rickets respectively.  It turns out that there is only one other named pandemic deficiency disease (at least in Western European languages).  This is beriberi which is caused by deficiency of vitamin B1.  Is it possible that these four vitamins are especially important nutrients?  

Ben - thanks for starting this site and posting on vitamin D and hives.  This will make it easier for me to recommend sunshine as a treatment.

[HivesGuy]

Hello shbrown,

I just wanted to drop by and thanks for the post. Sorry it took so long for a reply. Sometimes I get busy and forget to comment on posts here, but I always try to hit the ones I missed.

I agree that the sun is very important (in safe doses) to our overall health and well-being. Just as long as people don't overexpose, the sun is a great way to feel better, and enjoy better health.