Can I eat fish if I have urticaria?

Urticaria is a common skin disease in life. There are many reasons for urticaria. Severe skin allergies can also lead to the occurrence of urticaria. Urticaria should be treated in time. Eat more light foods. Fish is a seafood, and patients with skin diseases should try to eat less.

Many patients with urticaria have eaten certain seafood before the onset of the disease, which has caused experts to have the illusion that one of the causes of urticaria is seafood allergy. After clinical verification and rigorous scientific analysis, the cause of urticaria is indeed related to food allergy, especially seafood.

Foods that should not be eaten when suffering from urticaria. In the acute case, the disease develops rapidly and the fever is severe, but it will stop and heal in a few days to two weeks, just like the wind that comes and goes quickly; in the chronic case, the disease rises and falls repeatedly, often lingering for weeks, months or even years without recovery.

The causes of urticaria are mostly related to allergies. We know that seafood can easily cause allergic reactions. It is difficult to determine the allergenicity of foods eaten for chronic urticaria because some foods, such as milk, cream, barley, buckwheat, corn, beef, potatoes, broad beans, etc., often cause delayed reactions 24 hours after eating.

Therefore, the final method to decide on a certain food is the food elimination method, that is, only allowing to eat light foods that are not often allergenic, and then adding the above-mentioned allergenic foods one by one, observing the reaction, determining one or some allergenic foods, and then strictly abstaining from them. However, some foods, which Chinese medicine believes can cause wind and blood, are also clear allergenic foods, such as irritating foods, seafood, spicy foods, etc. Regardless of whether they are acute or chronic patients, they should be careful not to eat them. In addition, patients with intestinal urticaria, in addition to following the above-mentioned dietary restrictions, should also strictly avoid eating rough, indigestible foods during the onset of the disease, such as fried, deep-fried, smoked, and vegetables high in fiber, such as leeks, coriander, bamboo shoots, pickled vegetables, etc. Otherwise, it is easy to damage the gastrointestinal mucosa.

Most people with allergies should avoid eating seafood. In case of acute attack and the cause of the disease is not yet clear, some foods should be absolutely avoided, especially fish such as yellow croaker, hairtail, eel, carp, cuttlefish, and octopus; shellfish such as shrimp, crab, oyster, clams, cockles, razor clams, and turtle; meat such as chicken, goose, lamb, beef, pork head, as well as shiitake mushrooms, onions, leeks, peppers, cucumbers, day lilies, pickles, strawberries, ginkgo, chestnuts, peanut butter, wine and condiments such as vinegar, pepper, Sichuan pepper, star anise, etc. However, not all patients are allergic to the above-mentioned foods, but they should avoid eating them when the disease occurs, in order to find out which type of food or type of food is most likely to cause the disease. For example, some people develop urticaria after drinking alcohol, so they must strictly abstain from alcohol at other times.