Erticaria/Hives all over dd's body for no reason.......weird!

[Fetlock]

dd is 8, this has happened before although a long time ago, mentioned it to food allergy specialist when we last saw him a couple of years ago, seem to remember he seemed to think it was no big deal and that this can happen in children (my guess was that as she has an over sensitive body outwardly her body was showing that inwardly there was some kind of 'fight' going on). do any of your children ever have this? last night it happened on her arm and neck, i thought it might have been the chocolate egg she had eaten although labelling said contains egg but she can now tolerate egg as a cooked ingredient, she had one the night before and was fine but i still thought it might be that (this egg didn't say may contain nuts) but this morning POW! her body is COVERED in angry ertic'/raised rash, noway can she go to school (yippee as i love it when she is at home but that is by the by), i gave her piriton but it has not peaked yet, still spreading, she feels fine but it is awful, itches in places. really upsetting, and scary as you don't know how far it will spread, what is causing it and thus how long it will last/keep coming back. i am also gutted as i thought/had hoped that her body was 'de sensitising' as she is fine with dairy now as wasn't for the first 5 years of her life, and the fact that she has recently been having egg as a cooked ingredient successfully is still exciting for me and her

it is going down, i keep checking, it is looking less angry, good old piriton. tbh i have not been overly stressing about it as this has happened a fair few times over the years and have mentioned it to both gps (who look at me and say nothing) and to a top specialist who didn't say much either. i would be more concerned if she seemed/felt different but she never does although some of the areas itch but she doesn't scratch them (bless). still upsetting. our gp isn't open on a thursday but i know they would do nothing if i took them there as her breathing etc is all normal. they have never been much help along the way with any of her allergy stuff since birth be it eczema or food allergys, especially food allergies, i had to find my own way and pay for any real advice, wrong as it is

I had urticaria/hives when I had taken two or three courses of antibiotics in quick succession for an abscess.
I still get it now (ten years later) when something triggers it. Usually it's triggered by being too hot, itchy clothing/ seams that rub. If I am too warm during the day then it will come on by night-time.
Zirtek also called cetirizine works well for me. GP said it is better than piriton for skin rashes. I always keep some handy.
I also use E45 Itch relief cream which is a godsend for all kinds of itchy skin.

cross - i just went out and bought some e45, dd says it felt very soothing when i put it on so thanks alot for that. can't believe how bad her ertic' is. i'd think that after all these years of being a bit of a 'pro' when it comes to dealing with her allergies/eczema that i would be used to it but you forget, she doesn't have reactions often and i had forgotten the severity of them, i think i am more upset than her, it looks so painful and sore but she hasn't complained, at all, love her to bits!

DS has various food allergies and had it a couple of times. Once after going to the boatshow and it was a hot enviroment and he had a chocolate icecream. It was all over his torso and very itchy. I don't think he ever had it after that. We never found out what caused it, may have even been the chemicals in the new boats for all we know.

Fetlock a cool bath helps and don't dry her off afterwards, just lie on a big towel. The wetness helps to cool the skin IYSWIM

nottire thanks for your respone. she has had many tests over the years, most of which we had done at the portland and paid through the nose as well as couldn't get any help from gp, i'll never forget what she said (quote) i don't believe in children being tested for food allergies.....just as well we did pay as we have epi pens etc, she scored very high for peanuts and egg at the time although we will get her re tested this year at some point as he said to go back when she is 8 1/2. tbh she has had this before although a few years ago now. she can go for a few days with urticaria flaring up for no obvious reason. she wasn't in discomfort either which is odd (a few areas were vaguely itchy) but it looked AWFUL/PAINFUL but she said it wasn't. i still think that having an over sensitive 'insides' that she could possibly fighting some mild virus or something and that outwardly this has happened. over the course of the day she had 2 piriton's which is good as she didn't need the max of 4. she didn't lose her apetite etc. so strange. definately wasn't anything she had eaten as only ate usual safe stuff. she has been having (not loads) egg as a cooked ingredient successfully now for about a month give or take and no signs at all of anything wrong there so would be really surprised (and disappointed) if it was that. tonight she had a lightly warm bath with oilatum etc and i put some e45 on, hopefully she will be ok but i bet it comes up again tomorrow. poor sod, what worries me is if it keeps coming up, then i will def' go to dr but where i live anyway, i have just rarely come away feeling i have been helped, they really don't seem to 'get' the allergy thing. one dr i saw who is a really gd dr actually said to me the other year when i asked him to refer her to be tested to see if she had grown out of any of her food allergies 'i didn't think children grew out of allergies, that they had them for life...', i can't believe that an actual dr knows that. dd grew out of dairy and (in part) egg, sorry to ramble. thanks for your responses, much appreciated

My daughter (6) has urticaria every time she has any illness.

The doctor has said it is a reaction to her immune system kicking in. Luckily she never itches, though it looks awful.

The plus side is she can never fake illness and they often appear just before she goes down with something.

The doctor did say that the only concern is if they appear on her face as it could become Angio-oedema

murky - OMG. you know, dd doesn't often have these weird inexplainable outbreakes of erticaria but has had say 5 or less over the years. usually they are on her body but she did get a small amount on her cheeks last night. more to the point, over the years she has had it on her face but i had NO idea having read your article that it could be as bad as that. now i am confused. if she has an outbreak and she gets some again ie on her cheeks, do i rush her to hospital? seems to me they would take one look at me and think i was a neurotic mother behaving ott? i remember one time in particular when her eyes would swell up, just like in the picture, we never took her to hospital. chills me to think according to your attachment, that we should have done. she often gets it on her neck, again, i didn't worry before, well, a bit yes, but now, what do i do, rush to a&e? i am stressing now

His exact words to me when she was 18 months was that if it appears on her face you need to call an ambulance, but that was just his opinion.

The concern is that if the swelling moves to the deep tissue, say in the throat, it can restrict breathing.

Luckily we have never had any on the face.

My DD has chronic urticaria so gets it all the time.

As I said before the great thing is she soooo cannot fake illness.

Just saw this on the Foods Matter website
Chronic Hives linked to Vitamin D deficiency
www.skinsmatter.com/eczema_and_skin_conditions/skin_health/research/hives_vit_d.html

Thats really interesting tinytalker.

DD eats a really good diet, however her hives are really bad in the winter.