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What's going on? The whole family has hives!

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OinkBalloon · 14/04/2015 21:51

Well, not quite - 1 out of the 5 of us doesn't. But the rest of us keep getting batches of little hives. It's been going on for a couple of months, now.

Why? What's causing it? How can we make it stop?

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OinkBalloon · 22/04/2015 21:18

Definitely not what you describe, moonbells.

My CO2 trap has not caught anything.

If it was fleas, how would I find them?

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toldmywrath · 24/04/2015 20:51

The whole family has hives- are you bees?#Sorry a crass joke
Joking apart, I've had hives/urticaria/nettle rash (all the same thing just different names) & it didn't look like your photo OP, so it could be something else. I think a bite of some sort, sorry Sad

perlperl123 · 28/07/2015 07:00

OinkBalloon I really hope you can help me! I was searching Google to try to figure out what 5 out of my 6 of my family has.. we are going through EXACTLY what you described here. Its now 6 weeks. The picture posted is identical to what we have. And same like you said I don't believe it's bites as they come out during the day. I even saw five come out before my eyes during the day... the question I'm getting to is DID YOU EVER FIGURE OUT WHAT IT WAS? I really hope to hear from you.. it would help us tremendously. Thanks so much!!

SophiesDog · 28/07/2015 07:24

I had some bites like that a few weeks ago. We definitely don't have bed bugs (we don't travel or have visitors who do) but we did have a cat at our old house, until about 18 months ago. Then I began packing as we moved 6 months ago, and I think there were some cat flea eggs in my clothes as I had just started wearing some older underwear again.

I am fairly sure it was that.
If it is fleas (and it does really look like fleas to me) then they cannot survive on human blood and will just die - you don't need to spray anything, you could change your sheets and so on, but they will die by themselves if you no longer have a pet.

ChunksysGirl · 21/10/2017 04:06

This thread was from a while ago but my daughter and I (in Australia) have it too. Doctor swabbed us for Chicken Pox (might be mild) but a family member also had something similar so we are thinking it's some sort of contagious pox virus. Don't really have any other symptoms.

22ciara · 21/04/2021 00:31

Anyone ever find out the cause. Have something similar happening my family for past few weeks and wondered if anyone on here ever got to the bottom of their hives?? Thanks

SeaToSki · 21/04/2021 01:14

The posters with hives might not have notifications on and see that someone is posting hoping for answers. If you tag them with @ and then their user name, they will probably get a ping that they have been mentioned in a thread and come and look

Hope you figure it out

Mom01 · 30/04/2021 03:19

Did you find the reason of the hives. We are in a similar situation.

Mom01 · 30/04/2021 03:23

@OinkBalloon can you help

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OinkBalloon · 30/04/2021 07:47

We never found out what it was. Eventually the hives stopped appearing.

I think the virus theory is the most probable.

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Mom01 · 30/04/2021 08:55

How long did it take. Both the kids and myself are having similar hives. Doctors say bed bugs but can’t seem to find any.

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OinkBalloon · 30/04/2021 10:21

Sorry, I really don't remember.

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