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After I have a nice, hot shower, I get these lil hives all over my body, mostly on my chest, back, and stomach. It looks like I showered with mosquitos! I thought that it could be a reaction to the soap I was using, so I changed brands... several times. This has been going on for a few years at least, and I doubt I'm the only one with this problem.

The rash, which look like bug bites, always appears after a shower. I'm not sure if it appears after swimming as I haven't really checked.

What causes these hives? Chemicals in the water?

2007-04-20 05:37:43 · 4 answers · asked by Quickman 1 in Health Diseases & Conditions Skin Conditions

Gah, I'm not too accustomed to this interface, so I'm gonna recap my origonal question real quick: After a nice, hot shower, I get hives on my chest, back, and stomach. They look like I washed with mosquitos.

To add on, concerning MrsZ's question about what the hives/bumps/whatever look like...

The hives look like mosquito bites. A raised, white (well, normal skintone) bump surrounded by an irregular pink border that extends out from the bump roughly a quarter of an inch. The bumps are in random places and not real localized. They also itch.

Seriously, the hives look just like mosquito bites. After a shower I look like I was in a swarm of mosquitos. After a while, the bumps will go away, but small red dots from where they were will remain for mebbe a coupla hours 'fore they fade away.

If they're caused by heat, then I'll try a colder shower and see how that works.

2007-04-20 07:00:58 · update #1

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Try taking a cold shower and see if the same thing happens. I would bet that your skin is reacting to the heat.

2007-04-20 05:47:06 · answer #1 · answered by JLynes 5 · 0 0

the commonplace suspects are own care products and the cleansing soap you make the most of to bathe the towels that you dry off with. it ought to possibly be that the nice and cozy temperature of the bathe and the sweating are causing your body to detoxify (a sturdy element). i attempt to detox a minimum of once per week in a sauna. As I start up to detox, i'm getting undesirable itching, redness and urticaria (hives)....i recognize that it truly is my body pushing out the pollution accrued from the crud that they put in our food, the air that I breathe, and the own care products I used (even even with the actuality that i'm careful to apply formaldehyde and paraben loose products). it truly is undesirable on the precise of the first 15 minutes after I take my first spoil, on the precise of my 2d 15 minutes it truly is way less, and via the precise of the third 15 minutes i'm sweating freely and the itch is lengthy previous. So, you'll nicely be poisonous (which may clarify the lymph nodes) and not in any respect recognize it. in case you imagine it truly is in straightforward words your own care products, then attempt switching to at least something without formaldehyde, parabens or formaldehyde releasers. i love the Vanicream stuff, you are able to seem for it at your drug keep. i'm such as some links. One is about the disadvantages of formaldehyde, the 2d will inform you techniques to make a sauna at domicile (I cheat and use the single at my health center) and the third is for the Vanicream stuff.

2016-12-04 09:02:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Your nice hot showers are about 90% to blame. Take cooler showers and use Dove unscented soap. You sould like someone with atopic dermatitis prone skin. You will want to launder your clothing, towels and bedding in dye free perfume free products. Perfumes and dyes are not good for people with sensitive skin..

Unless these "hives" are raised pink spots where the center of it actually thickens/raises up, with a fairly large perimeter of hot pink skin surrounding it, I don't think they are real hives. Do they itch? Do they go away only after you take oral antihistimines? Or do they go away once your body cools off? If they disappear after your body cools off they're not hives. And if you get them no matter where you shower,I think they are not real hives.

I'm 4th generation pale and sensitive, plus we have dermatologists and M.D.'s in my family.

2007-04-20 06:05:28 · answer #3 · answered by wwhrd 7 · 0 0

hi there, i had the same hassle for over 4 years! docs and tests and changing shampoos soaps etc. medications and creams ...hah all the commercial products are almost all the same! chlorinated water pre sentitises our skins, the proven allergen sodium lauryl sulphate is usually to blame. its in almost all shampoos toothpaste even and soaps!
that plus the caustic soda and other nasties in out laundry items..sheesh! simply in a matter of 1 week!! i stopped itching! and have no problems at all now. answer WWW.melaleuca.com. if you don,t stop scratching, you get all your money back! thats how good their products are.
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2007-04-20 06:14:05 · answer #4 · answered by amicus curiae 3 · 0 0

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