PART TWO: WHAT IS HEAT-INDUCED URTICARIA?

PART TWO: WHAT IS HEAT-INDUCED URTICARIA?


Firstly, I am not a doctor  and not someone working in the healthcare industry.
 But, I once suffered from urticaria. A word that never cross my mind before. A word that is  so alien to me but not to skin specialist.
 One expect told me that at least 15 per cent of the world population have at least suffered from this sickness once in their lifetime.
Some suffered for as long as 20 to 30 years.
 Oh no! Not me! I won't allow that to happen to me. So, I started doing my research. In the morning, I would goggle my way through the internet searching for clues.
I realised that I don't sweat although the weather is tremendously hot. So, where they have gone to?
I also realised that they were hidden under my skin. The sweat just don't want to come out. 
Heat-induced urticaria is caused by a collection of pathogenic wind in the superficial layer of the muscles or  accumulation of heat in the stomach and instentines that is not removed from inside and outside, and settles in the pores of the skin.
I also realised that some part of my body has very high temperature: My hand, leg and abdomen.
I stopped execising as I don't want to sweat myself and increase my body temperature.
 The worst is at noon. The heat is bad and skin becomes very itchy. The worst is the feeling to scratch my skin.
 The more I scratched my skin, more rashes will come out and it doesn't not stop.
 It is said if our body is out of balance, body temperature will increase. Stress is also related as it can alter our immune system.
 Two showers a day are not enough. I showered as many times I want to. I will shower before going to bed at night.
I make sure my body temperature will drop after shower. And I will apply calamine lotion on the affected area.
By doing this, I have confortable sleep. Heat-induced urticaria or cholinergic urticaria is an auto-immune condition of one's own sweat or sweat serum.
It is a condition where breakdown of the mast cells in the skin prior to sweat release.
Blocked sweat pores or miliria rubra can reduce sweating ability, and this is situation that I was facing!
The prolonged hot condition does make my body feel itchy almost all part of the body. Shower and having a long bath really help.
I include a lot of fruits in my diet. I eat mango, banana, watermelon and apples. I also eat a lot of cucumber, spinach, cabbage and lettuce. I fall in love with fruit salad.
They become my main menu. I stop eating all heat-induced food such as red onion, garlic, turmeric and black pepper, and of course red hot chillies.
 By eating the right food, I can cold down my body temperature tremendously. And it does help me a lot. Skin rashes do come but at lesser amount.
See you in the next post.