Hi, I am suffering from Urticaria since 15. I am 23 yrs of age now.i used to take cetirizine tablets for months. i started reducing the time gap between consecutive dosage and i stopped taking the medicine. For around 3 -4 yrs, am not taking the medicine now. Hives start to appear mainly when my body becomes cold or remain wet for long time. Now, the symptoms are not appearing quickly as it used to be. I take medicine (cetirizine) only when hives become so large and too many, and when it becomes unbearable. Is there any permanent cure to this? If I go to a foreign country like US or England (where its very cold most of the time), will i be able to survive without medicine? Please advise. Other details: Height:180 cm, weight: 58Kgs. Am not facing other health problems.
Hello, I can understand your concern, well urticaria mainly have a triggering factor as other allergies, if you have diagnosed the reason than avoiding it is the main baseline, or you can go for multiple patch test to know all the triggering factors, and if you can't than you can try a prolonged therapy of levocetrizine with montelukast for few months and taper it, maybe it would help you. Good luck