Urticaria Idopathic Angioedema Pruritis - I know bless you for sneezing right? I mean what a long long name to mean simply that my body has built up an IgE antibody that periodically decides my body is under attack from foreign matter when in actuality nothing is unfamiliar in my body at all. Let me break it down for you... Urticaria is a skin rash often known as hives that is accompanied by severe itching and swelling. Idopathic means to rise spontaneously from an unknown cause. Angioedema means Swelling in the deep tissue layers caused by a build up of fluid that leaks from thin walled blood vessels. Pruritis is severe, usually chronic itching of skin that appears otherwise healthy. What the specialist told me is that there are a percentage of people, that as they age for whatever reason build up this IgE antibody in their system. The majority of these are women over the age of forty. Wow... Guess I qualify there too. He said they are not sure why
this occurs but they do know how to treat it to make the likely hood that I will have another outbreak slim to none. I have a new medication, which is going to sink me about $35 a month. It's called XYZAL (pronounced SiZall). Starting tomorrow I am to take it every morning and my Zyrtec every night. I am to carry the Benedryl strips so that I can get quick relief in my purse and I go back to the specialist in three months. There is no specific item causing my episodes, just my lucky nature that I am one of the percentage of women who has built up this antibody in my system which causes histamines to get released periodically. Once the histamines are released they start attacking everything in my body... Fun Fun Fun. Yippee Lucky me, but at least we know and as Dorthy once said on Golden Girls, I'm just glad to know I have a real disease and it has a name.
Urticaria Idopathic Angioedema Pruritis - I know bless you for sneezing right? I mean what a long long name to mean simply that my body has built up an IgE antibody that periodically decides my body is under attack from foreign matter when in actuality nothing is unfamiliar in my body at all. Let me break it down for you... Urticaria is a skin rash often known as hives that is accompanied by severe itching and swelling. Idopathic means to rise spontaneously from an unknown cause. Angioedema means Swelling in the deep tissue layers caused by a build up of fluid that leaks from thin walled blood vessels. Pruritis is severe, usually chronic itching of skin that appears otherwise healthy. What the specialist told me is that there are a percentage of people, that as they age for whatever reason build up this IgE antibody in their system. The majority of these are women over the age of forty. Wow... Guess I qualify there too. He said they are not sure why 
this occurs but they do know how to treat it to make the likely hood that I will have another outbreak slim to none. I have a new medication, which is going to sink me about $35 a month. It's called XYZAL (pronounced SiZall). Starting tomorrow I am to take it every morning and my Zyrtec every night. I am to carry the Benedryl strips so that I can get quick relief in my purse and I go back to the specialist in three months. There is no specific item causing my episodes, just my lucky nature that I am one of the percentage of women who has built up this antibody in my system which causes histamines to get released periodically. Once the histamines are released they start attacking everything in my body... Fun Fun Fun. Yippee Lucky me, but at least we know and as Dorthy once said on Golden Girls, I'm just glad to know I have a real disease and it has a name.
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