Cold Urticaria is an allergy to the cold. People with Cold Urticaria experience hives when exposed to the cold. Some say it's an autoimmune disease, some people prefer calling it an allergy.
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