Experts recommend effective treatments for urticaria

Urticaria is one of the common skin diseases. Suffering from urticaria is very painful because the symptoms of urticaria are very itchy. Urticaria can be treated with medication, mainly antihistamines.

1. Cold urticaria and angioedema can be treated with certain antihistamines that also have anti-5-hydroxytryptamine effects, such as cyproheptadine, and 6-aminocaproic acid can also be tried.

2. For patients with severe acute urticaria and widespread rash, 0.1% epinephrine can be injected subcutaneously immediately, and then antihistamine preparations can be taken orally or injected. Patients with abdominal pain can be given antispasmodics such as propantheline, atropine, etc. If there are symptoms of shock, 0.5 ml of 0.1% epinephrine should be injected subcutaneously immediately, and hydrocortisone and vitamin C should be added to the glucose solution by intravenous drip.

3. Chronic urticaria is generally treated with antihistamines. When one antihistamine is ineffective, 2-3 can be given simultaneously.

4. Atropine can be used for cholestatic urticaria.

5. Use Atarax for skin scratches and pressure urticaria.

6. For solar urticaria, avoid exposure to sunlight and apply sunscreen externally. Oral medications include desensitizer and chloroquine.

7. Treatments for urticaria include desensitization therapy: desensitization solution made from positive allergen test results is regularly injected intradermally in different concentrations to gradually reduce the body's sensitivity to positive allergens. Therefore, this method is difficult to promote due to its complicated operation, long course of treatment, slow effect. It is also an effective option for patients with chronic urticaria who are not well treated.

8. Drug treatment for urticaria: Oral antihistamines are important drugs for the treatment of various urticaria patients and can control the symptoms of most patients. Although antihistamines cannot directly confront or neutralize histamine and cannot prevent the release of histamine, they can compete with histamine and quickly inhibit the formation of wheals.

9. Autohemotherapy: Draw 5-10 ml of the patient's own venous blood twice a week and immediately inject it into the muscle. Scrubbing with high concentration sodium chloride solution has certain effect. This is also one of the treatments for urticaria.