Cholinergic Urticaria (Chronic Heat Hives)-Cholinergic Urticaria.net I Get Itchy Heat Hives (Cholinergic Urticaria) When I Get Hot or Exercise

The past couple of days I have been doing a lot of errands. It has been very hot & muggy. I tried to purposely keep the windows up to make the temperature get really hot in my car. The results, a little itching the first day, followed by SWEAT…YES!!

It feels so great to sweat! I never realized how much I took it for granted until I got Cholinergic Urticaria (heat hives). So every time I am lucky enough to sweat, I always take advantage of it.

I had a great sweat yesterday. Today, I also went out and didn’t itch at all. Instead, I went directly into sweating with no itching or prickling. I love it!!

If only it would be like this all the time. But this makes me think, perhaps if I could get way more sun/outdoors exposure, and sweat like crazy on a frequent basis–maybe this thing will go away for good??

I always makes me feel more positive after a good sweat, because it gives me hope that one day this is all going to be behind us.

The old saying is sometimes true: Use it or lose it!!

Just think about it. If you don’t use your memory, you will lost it. If you don’t use your body, it will become out of shape and you will “lose it.” Maybe it is the same with sweat glands. Maybe we didn’t use them enough, and they stopped working? Maybe air conditioners are to blame as well. It seems like humans have air conditioners everywhere. At home, work, car, etc.

So maybe we just need to get more good old fashion sweat, on a CONSISTENT and REGULAR basis. Sure, I have days when I sweat or go outside–but certainly not consistently or regularly. Plus, when this first started, I had a period of little activity and stayed mostly indoors.

Diet Update:

Well I have now been off the diet for several days. I am actually still avoiding milk “mostly.” I allowed myself to have a blizzard from Dairy Queen. It was great, but it still upset my stomach a little despite taking some lactose pills. So oh well. I guess I will just have to really control my milk intake, and allow it here & there in my diet.

So I have just been eating regular stuff again (with wheat, etc.). I am no longer trying any intense diets at the moment, but I am more “healthy food” conscious, so I am going to try to find a better balance of healthy food vs. junk foods.

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Hello Everyone,

I have now been on the very strict allergy elimination diet for a little over a week now. I have been gluten-free/milk-free for almost a month. This has been very tough, and it is discouraging to see that even though the hives are not as severe, I am still having attacks and I get itchy when I get really hot. For example, today when driving I got a little itchy, but nothing major. So I decided to have a workout today. I did well up until I started getting really hot. At that point, I started getting the itchy/prickly feeling & had to slow down and cool off. Bummer.

I am going to continue this very strict diet until about August 14th. At that point, if I haven’t seen a significant difference, then I may call off the diet & go back to normal foods. Plus I have had several great comments & follow-ups by people (at least 3 people now) indicating that they have confirmed that their dad’s also have mentioned having this for a period of time, and that it eventually went away. Which seems to indicate that perhaps diet is not related (at least in my particular case).

So perhaps this is just a weird allergic type reaction that comes & goes at points in our life?? Who knows? But it gives me a lot of hope & motivation to keep on going and toughing out these itchy hives until one day they go away.

Also, I am really hoping at this point that diet is NOT related to Cholinergic Urticaria symptoms, because I am going to pig out here in a few days…

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