Use Your Acute Urticaria to Avoid Chronic Urticaria Developing.

Acute urticaria can be diagnosed by how often the condition appears. Symptoms which last for less than 3 weeks are normally labeled as acute rather than chronic. While acute urticaria may not seem serious and in many cases its not. You might want to consider the future.

What do I mean?

My urticaria episodes started at the age of sixteen. They were infrequent and so I took little notice, but fast forward 25 years and that infrequent skin condition took over my life.

Acute urticaria is a warning of things to come in many cases. So what should you do?

Pin pointing the trigger for acute urticaria is so much easier than trying to discover the reasons for chronic idiopathic urticaria 10 or so years later.

When symptoms of acute urticaria first appear make a list of foods you've consumed over the previous 2 days. List all of the cosmetics, haircare products, perfumes, soaps and deodorants you've used in the last couple of days. Maybe you have had a couple of drinks? List them as well.

Don't be too concerned with only listing new products or foods that you have used as urticaria can be attributed to a build up of toxins over time. For example; Perhaps you have eaten cheese for the last 10 years without any problems. This does not mean that cheese is not a trigger.

The bodies digestive and immune system can deal with most allergens in small infrequent doses but over time the build up can overcome the bodies own defense system hence causing a particular food etc that you've eaten and enjoyed for years to become one of your urticaria triggers.

Keep your list handy, cut everything on the list from your diet and life in the short term. After a couple of weeks start re-introducing one of the products or foods in turn. Do this until you find the allergen which is responsible.

Keeping a diary of foods and products which might be urticaria triggers will help you cut the offending products from your everyday life. Which will help you avoid your acute urticaria turning into a chronic condition later in life.