Your health care provider will examine you and tell you about how The Hives or angioedema began. Tell him or her as follows. Any medication (prescription and nonprescription) you, even when they are more in the last days. All supplements or herbs you use, if only occasionally, and she took the last.
All new or unusual foods, soaps, detergents and cosmetics. Allergies, you know. All previous illnesses you have, such as sore throat, cough, runny nose, vomiting or diarrhea. All chronic diseases like diabetes, liver disease or kidney. If there is a possibility that you are pregnant.
If your doctor can not tell you what you hives or angioedema, they encourage you to trigger an allergy specialist (allergist see). Even with Patch testing may not be possible to identify the trigger.
Close any food or drugs identified cause hives or angioedema. In mild cases no treatment is necessary. If the symptoms that you feel comfortable, take a nonprescription antihistamine such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl) by mouth, relieves the instructions for each package or as directed by your doctor until the symptoms. This can be effective for mild episodes. Antihistamines can make you too tired to drive or operate machinery safely.
cold compresses or baths may help with complaints. Avoid hot baths or showers. Avoid direct sunlight. Wear light and airy. Avoid strenuous activity or do anything else would be sweating. Try to relax and reduce stress.
Serious reactions are not trying to treat severe reactions or to wait at home. Go immediately to the nearest first aid or call an ambulance. Here are some things that you are able to do until the ambulance:
Try to stay calm. If you avoid the cause of the reaction that exposure to others. Take an antihistamine, such as tablets or capsules 1-2 diphenhydramine (Benadryl), if you can swallow without difficulty. The liquid form of diphenhydramine (Benadryl) may also 2-4 teaspoons (10-20 ml) per dose.
If you are wheezing or difficulty breathing, use an inhaled bronchodilator such as salbutamol (Proventil), if one exists. These drugs increase airway inhalation.
If you feel dizzy or weak, and the legs are higher than the head, the blood flow to the brain to help you. If you have received an epinephrine kit, inject you have loaded. The kit contains a measured dose of epinephrine, a prescription drug that rapidly reverses the most severe symptoms.
Spectators should administer CPR to a person who is unconscious and not breathing or has no pulse. If possible, you or your adviser must be prepared to tell medical personnel what medications you and your history of allergy.
The treatment of hives depends on the severity of symptoms. For mild to moderate localized, a nonprescription antihistamine by mouth is usually sufficient, and comfort measures to the skin. In severe cases, an injection or a short course of corticosteroids needed to quickly reduce the swelling and itching.