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Hives In Children

Leo Leonidas MD, FAAP

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Hives or urticaria are easily recognized by most laymen. About 15% of the population might experience hives at one time or another. Acute hives last shorter than 6 weeks; chronic hives longer than 6 weeks. In most instances, it is difficult to pin point the cause of hives. Antihistamines usually help reduce the itching.

The following are the causes of Hives:

MEDICATIONS (Penicillins, Sulfas, Sedatives, Aspirin, Analgesics, etc)

FOODS (Nuts, Fish, Eggs, Milk, Strawberries, Lobster, Citric Acid, etc)

INHALANTS (Pollens, Mold spores, Animal danders, Plants, Aerosols)

INFECTIONS (Strep, Infectious Mono, Coxsackie, Adenovirus)

PARASITES (Giardiasis, Roundworms, Trichinosis)

INSECTS & ARTHROPOD BITES & STINGS (Bees, Wasps, Fleas, Mites, Bedbugs, Mosquitoes, Scorpions, Spiders, and jellyfish)

PENETRANTS & CONTACTANTS (Textiles, Animal Danders, Plants, Cosmetics)

SYSTEMIC DISEASES (JRA, SLE, Henoch-Schonlein, Urticaria Pigmentosa, Tumors)

PSYCHOGENIC URTICARIA (Stress, Psychological disturbances)

GENETIC DISORDERS (Hereditary Angioneurotic Edema, Familial Cold Urticaria, Familial Heat Urticaria, Vibratory Angioedema, Heredofamilial Syndrome of Urticaria with deafness and Amyloidosis, and Erythropoietic Protoporphyria)

URTICARIAL VASCULITIS

PHYSICAL FACTORS (Dermatographia, Cholinergic Factors, Cold, Pressure, Solar)

Reference:
Signs & Symptoms In Pediatrics
2nd Edition, page 615
Tunnessen, Jr

Belly Pain   Air Leaks From Lungs   Acute Crying   Back Pain   Bed Wetting   Big Lymph Node   Big Spleen   Blood in Urine Chronic Diarrhea   Chest Pain   Cough   Coughing Up Blood   Constipation Droopy Eye   Enlarged Glands   Eye Swelling   Excessive Thrist   Facial Paralysis   Fainting Spell   Feeding Problem GI Bleeding   Headache   Head Tilt   Hives   High ESR   Hoarseness   Joint Pain   Limp   Leg Pain   Muscle Weakness   Noisy Breathing   Nose Bleeding   Nose Obstruction   Pyuria   Recurrent Infection   Red Green Urine   Ringing in the Ears Scrotal Swelling     Seizures   Stiff Neck   Swelling of the Parotic Gland   Toe Walking   Toeing In   Toeing Out   Unequal Pupils   Vomiting   Wheezing


Leo Leonidas, MD, FAAP
Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston
Attending Pediatrician
Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor

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