Chronic urticaria is very harmful, treat it early, don't let your body suffer
Chronic urticaria is a skin disease. Once suffering from this disease, the skin and mucous membranes will not only be extremely itchy, but also red plaques will appear repeatedly. Some friends thought it was just a common skin disease and ignored it, making the treatment more and more difficult.
In addition, chronic urticaria is extremely prone to recurrent attacks. If you don’t pay attention to your diet, such as eating seafood or eating some high-protein foods, it may induce disease attacks. And once the wind blows and catches cold, or touches cold water, it will be extremely itchy.
Life-threatening: Don't underestimate the skin disease of chronic urticaria, which can be life-threatening if it is serious. When urticaria develops in the larynx and bronchi of the respiratory tract, if it is not treated in time and the disease recurs, it will easily cause a sense of blockage in the throat, resulting in symptoms such as shortness of breath, chest tightness, and dyspnea. The patient suffocates to death.
Affecting life and work: Although chronic urticaria is a mild disease at the beginning, it will affect the patient's study, work, and rest due to the severe itching symptoms of this disease. Especially if it is not well controlled in the early stage, it will be accompanied by aggravated itching in the morning or before going to bed, which will not only affect the life of the patient, but also cause excessive irritability in the heart.
It may induce other diseases: when the course of chronic urticaria is long, the treatment will be more complicated, and it is likely to be accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms, which can lead to symptoms of gastrointestinal dysfunction such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain in patients , may also lead to ulcerative colitis. Since urticaria is mainly caused by immune dysfunction, it may also induce nephritis, autoimmune hyperthyroidism and other diseases. It can be seen that there are many complications of chronic urticaria.
It can be seen that the hazards of chronic urticaria are many. Therefore, after discovering the symptoms of urticaria, you should go to the hospital for examination in time, and formulate a reasonable treatment plan under the doctor's advice. There are mainly the following treatment methods for chronic urticaria:
- Treat the cause
In real life, many factors can cause chronic urticaria. For example, patients already suffer from tonsillitis, sinusitis and other infectious diseases, or are infected by parasites. Therefore, during treatment, we should look for the cause of the disease, and then carry out targeted therapy.
- Desensitization therapy
Some patients may also cause chronic urticaria due to improper medication, such as long-term use of antibiotics such as penicillin, tetracycline, and chloramphenicol, which can also cause urticaria. Therefore, if necessary, stop using these drugs under the guidance of a doctor, and then adopt desensitization therapy.
- Watch your diet
If you often eat spicy and irritating food or eat food containing artificial coloring and preservatives in your life, the incidence of urticaria will increase. Therefore, patients and friends should pay attention to maintaining reasonable eating habits, and the daily diet should be as light as possible, which is also good for improving the symptoms of chronic urticaria.
The above is the relevant introduction about the hazards and treatment of chronic urticaria. At present, there are many methods and drugs for the treatment of chronic urticaria. In terms of medication, everyone should pay attention to obey the doctor's guidance and correct medication, and do not take it blindly.