I am 20 years old in Canada. I believe it’s been 2 years since I’ve began experiencing heat rashes from mentioned causes, stress, physical activity, temperature, etc. However, does anyone else experience hives from being touched by someone in one spot for too long?
For example, when I cuddle with my partner, I receive very bad hives in the area of contact such as my shoulder or back, lasting over an hour after cooling off. It usually is fine if it is not skin to skin contact, but you can imagine how frustrating this may be.
Any insight is appreciated.
Thank you,
Cuddler
Hivesguy says
When I had cholinergic urticaria, I never developed a rash or hives reaction from just touch or contact. It sounds like you might have an overlapping contact or pressure urticaria. It’s not uncommon for people who have hives to have other allergic disorders or urticaria types (some on this forum have cholinergic urticaria and cold urticaria, for example).
Marcia Hildreth McGrath says
My son (aged 32) has CU, and has had for a few years now, though after a couple years, found out that sugar is his main culprit. So controls his CU by avoiding sugar.
However, my daughter (aged 25 now), has had exactly what you are talking about, and has had it since she was a child. If she sat on a metal folding chair that was cold while she was wearing shorts, the backs of her legs would get large hives on them. If we tickled her, she got hives wherever she was tickled; ribs, bottom of the feet, wherever. If she had a band-aid on, and then pulled it off, she’d get hives. She also has asthma. Once when in a triathlon, she dove into very cold water, had trouble breathing, became somewhat disoriented, and swam in the totally wrong direction. It was like the sudden cold brought on a reaction. (Continued the race anyway. She is one tough cookie.) And often she would get hive on various parts of her body for no apparent reason at all.
So apparently my kids have allergic issues of a similar, but different, nature than each other. My daughter took Zyrtec (2.5 milligrams once per day) from ages 10 to 18, which helped quite a bit. After age 18 she had problems infrequently enough that she stopped the med.
Ahmad says
Yea l do have that too .. i cant stand anyone toches me cuz wherever that happen it causes me hives in that spot for sometime, specially if i was sweating in this spots ..