What is chronic urticaria?

Urticaria is an allergic disease of the skin and mucous membranes, characterized by irregular outbreaks and recurrent attacks, accompanied by intense itching. The first symptoms of urticaria are the wind, rubella. Many patients often do not get timely treatment, repeated episodes of pain, urticaria, is now recognized as one of the difficult diseases in medicine.

The harm of urticaria

1, causing skin infections

Chronic urticaria, can cause intense itching, subconsciously scratching with their hands. In the long run, this leads to skin scratches, cigars, hyperpigmentation and so on, and even the skin becomes rough, thickened, moss-like eczema-like lesions, after scratching, but also cause skin infections.

2, affect the daily life

Patients often suddenly feel itchy all over the body, like bugs crawling, or a burning sensation. It affects daily rest and sleep, and seriously affects normal life and work.

3, affecting mental health

Impact on mental health, itchy skin is not a big disease, but repeated episodes of untreated, so that the patient in the spirit of suffering great torment, in the long run, leading to depression, the condition aggravated.

The causes of chronic urticaria

The pathogenesis of this disease is more complex, the causative agent may be food, such as mango, seafood; may also be cold, heat, sunlight; animal fur, and some people are allergic to rice and flour.

Mental factors can also lead to urticaria, mental stress, tension, anger, can also cause urticaria.

Visceral diseases, such as rheumatism, arthritis, endocrine disorders, etc. can also cause hives. Because the cause of urticaria is not clear, it is difficult to identify the cause of the disease, so it also brings the corresponding difficulty in treatment.

Different therapies of western and eastern medicine

Western medicine on urticaria

At present, there is no specific treatment for urticaria in western medicine, and most of them use antihistamine drugs or hormone drugs. Western medicine is effective immediately, but the use of hormone drugs for a long time or large doses will lead to addiction or drug dependence. It is common for the condition to improve after using the drug, but once the drug is discontinued, the original condition worsens.

Chinese medicine on the treatment of urticaria

Chinese medicine believes that the wind is related to the wind, when the pores are open, the wind and cold evil closed in the skin coupling, can not be released. If you have a cold attack, you will feel the cold wind, and use the drugs to remove the cold and dispel the wind; if you have a heat attack and the rash is bright red, you will feel the heat wind, and use the drugs to promote the stasis of heat, for example, eliminating the wind punch.

Chinese medicine typing treatment

Wei Qi is not solid type

Symptomatic features: physical weakness, easy to sweat, sweat after the cold leads to itchy skin.

Treatment: Dispel wind and dispersal of cold, benefit the qi and solidify the surface, can be used with the addition or subtraction of Yu Ping Feng San.

Gastrointestinal disorders

Symptoms: In addition to itching symptoms, accompanied by abdominal distension, epigastric plumpness, irregular bowel movements.

Treatment: Conditioning of the stomach and intestines, available Baohewan plus reduction.

Baohe Pills: middle-aged and elderly people, weak spleen and stomach, easy to abdominal distension. Take Baohe pill, 15 to 20 minutes can relieve bloating. It can be purchased from pharmacies and is recommended to keep it at home!

Qi and blood stasis type

Symptomatic features: dull yellowish color, tongue with bruises, bruises.

Treatment: Promote blood circulation to eliminate blood stasis, regulate blood to eliminate wind, can use bloodfu sui yu tang plus reduction.

Lung and kidney insufficiency type

Symptom characteristics: movement is shortness of breath, lumbar and knee pain and weakness.

Therapy: nourish the lungs and kidneys, can use six flavors of dihuangwan plus reduction

Qi and blood deficiency type

Symptomatic features: the patient is weak and sickly, insomnia, fatigue, fatigue, pale.

Treatment: Supplementation of qi and blood, benefit the heart and spleen, can be used when the Angelica drink with subtractions.

Note: The above dialectic, so that we can deduce the symptoms, the specific medication, still need to be diagnosed by a professional Chinese medicine practitioner to prescribe treatment!

External treatment can be operated at home

External washing

Xu Changqing, jujube, silkworm sand, licorice 30 grams each. Decoction of water and fumigation, once a day, 15 times for a course of treatment.

External rub

Wash with fresh fishweed, rub the affected area externally, every time the attack, itching is intense.

Combination of Chinese and Western medicine

It is recommended to use a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, for example, when the symptoms are more serious, the use of Western medicine to quickly control the symptoms, to reduce the pain, when the symptoms are under control, enter into remission, stop the use of Western medicines, use traditional Chinese medicine to regulate the body, to remove the root cause of the disease.

Director Tian Q&A session

Li Bijun: Director Tian, I used to have hives, but it has been cured, but now in the spring and summer, there is a piece of itch on the knee, and when I scratch it, it will be bumps, so what should I do?

Director Tian answer: it is from the whole body urticaria, finally confined to the knee, knee joint. Localized urticaria, it is recommended to use hormone-free, herbal ingredients of eczema cream wipe.

Buckle: Director Tian, I am often prone to pollen allergies in the spring, is there any way to prevent?

Director Tian answer: clearly know is pollen allergy, first avoid allergens, go out can wear a mask. Or go out and come back to clean the nasal cavity and mouth, usually pay attention to enhance physical fitness. Can do some eight brocade, yoga, improve their own immunity.

Liu Qing: spring is coming, sneezing and runny nose, how to treat, like this season should pay attention to what?

Director Tian answer: spring sneezing, runny nose, mostly related to pollen or cold air, or sudden heat allergies, need to identify the treatment, distinguish between wind-cold or wind-heat.

Sneezing is also related to irritation of the nasal mucosa, and it is recommended to wash the nasal cavity with warm water after going out and coming home.

A Cheng mua ~: I am allergic to dust, is it possible to clean the nose every day to improve? I'm not sure if I can do this, but I think it's a good idea to do it. I have to how to clean the nose and mouth, dust allergy hives troubled for several years, thank you director Tian!

Director Tian answer: cleaning the mouth is to rinse with warm saline water, cleaning the nasal cavity, with a hand hand cupped warm saline water, gently inhale with the nose, and then clean the nasal cavity. Online you can buy nasal washers, blended with light salt water to wash the nose.