This informational guide, part of PS's Condition Center, lays out the realities of this health concern: what it is, what it can look like, and strategies that medical experts say are proven to help.

(BPT) – If you’ve had hives, you know how challenging they can be. But you may not know that there is more than one type of hives, or urticaria, and that treatments are available. A brief episode of ...

A teenager with an ultra-rare condition says she can’t get wet without her skin breaking out in painful red hives that feel like “being doused with gasoline and set on fire”. Sadie Tessmer, from ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

What are hives and what causes them? Hives are a term used to describe a medical condition known as urticaria, a skin disorder that occurs when the body’s immune system responds to an allergic threat.

They’re red, they’re itchy — and they’re coming for you, just when you need them the least. Hives are a common skin condition, and they typically show up as a red, itchy rash. Known to doctors as ...

Medically reviewed by Daniel More, MD Key Takeaways Hives are little bumps caused by an immune system reaction and can be ...

Urticaria, the second most common drug eruption after exanthematous drug eruptions, 1 is characterized by episodic short-lived swellings of the skin, oropharnyx, or genitalia. Transient leakage of ...

Patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) experienced improved quality of life and sleep when symptoms were mitigated ...

In patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria, biomarkers such as a positive chronic urticaria index and low blood histamine ...

Hives are one of those things that you hear about so often that it feels like you should know what they are, how to spot them and how to treat them. But the truth is that many of us don’t really know ...