To ask about hives and swollen fingers.

[Dishwashersaurous]

Yesterday I suddenly was covered in hives. Took an antihistamine last night. Still there , itchy and unpleasant to look at, this morning.

I'm not allergic to anything. I ate and drunk nothing I hadn't done a million times. Don't feel ill.

Does anyone have any personal experience of hives, medical websites seem to suggest that allergic reaction is the trigger, however I don't have any allergies.

So, does anyone have any idea what it might be, and if so how to.get rid?

@PeloFondo god that's crap, I'm sorry!

I'm just happy Xolair prevents it to be honest! I have an appointment for my next course very soon

Thanks all. It's gone mainly down now so not sure.

Although antihistamines seem to make me sleepy and grumpy

As per @lawandgin I developed urticaria out of the blue and it wasn't going away.

Dermatologist told me that unless I could easily pinpoint a cause, it wasn't an allergy and not worth doing tests. It went away after a year as mysteriously as it arrived, but even years later I'll sometimes get a few hives up.

Then the same thing happened to DH.

If anti-histamines make you drowsy keep trying different ones, and definitely don't have Piriton.

I've had an outbreak of hives a couple of days ago. No idea of the reason why though just started out of the blue. As well as antihistamine I'm using .5% hydrocortisone cream before bed to damp down the itching.