Is Cold Urticaria transmitted from person to person? Is Cold Urticaria contagious? What are the routes of contagion? People with experience in Cold Urticaria help solve this question.
Definately not contaigious, Cold Urticaria is something weird that your immune system does all on it's own and it's unknown what causes it.
It is thought that it is a possible reaction to things like insect bites and viruses, but this doesn't explain heriditary urticaria and the element genetics possibly plays. Maybe one day someone will be interested enough to work this one out and get back to us!
Parents noticed my hives at age 5. Got several allergy tests, including food tests. I remember at one time they thought I was allergic to hotdogs. Somehow they figured it out.
At age 14 I hopped out of a pool and had welts all over my body. My uncle (a Dr) said it looked like Raynaud's disease. Later a skin speciliast diagnosed it as Cold Urticaria. I tried anti-histamines for a while but hated the side effects. I prefer t...
i didn't experience any symptoms of cold urticaria until I was 8 years old. I grew up in Upstate Ny and spent a lot of time playing outside and in the snow. The first time I ever had a reaction, I was sledding with a few friends, and went inside and ...
I've had OCD my whole life, but when I was 7 or 8, I started getting constant headaches. I went to lots of doctors, and they still can't figure out why I get so much unbearable headaches. Around the same time, I developed Cold Urticaria