Contact hives/Gymboree

I would think that if you washed her and changed her clothes, that no more hives would pop up. We have had that happen with ingestion reactions where it happened for days, but not contact.

Thanks, I thought it was kind of strange. Another member mentioned "viral hives" on another thread I was on. Just can't figure it out...have you ever had hives from "ingestion" only show up on one body part at a time...hers was on one arm yesterday and the other arm today...wonder if I have something we normally eat that is cross contaminated?

My mom had eaten bread with sesame seeds and cookies with almonds once before we visited her (my son is allergic to peanuts and treenuts and seeds). She huged him and he started to break out into hives around his neck. The hives came one or two at a time and when one would get smaller another one would start. I wiped him down and this went on for about 1/2 hour and he stopped breaking out. He broke out only in one area around his neck. I believe it was a contact reaction. My mom changed her shirt after that and now she knows to be careful next time. It's so hard sometimes to figure out what is going on, especially if they just ate something and they could be reacting to something in the air or vise versa.

Thanks for the response. It definitely is hard to figure out. My daughter is having environmental allergies at this time as well- so I'm wondering if maybe these are making her more sensitive to everything?

She also seems to have dermagraphia (sp?)- where if she gets scratched or rubbed she gets a welt/hivey looking- but it only lasts a few minutes, then disappears.

We are now on zrytec daily- at least until her environmental allergies quiet down- since we have had several days of a few "mystery hives" here and there. Also from some of the posts it sounds like some people have been told it might help avoid asthma? Not sure forgot to ask that question at the allergist. Thanks.