this is registered nurse rn.com and we're going to look at this video on what are coleric ticaria symptoms and again just let me briefly state that I'm not a doctor so you always need to ask your doctor before you take any medical advice change any dieting exercising whatever in this video I'm just going to give a brief overview of the symptoms and we'll talk a little bit about that okay so first of all the individuals that suffer with this condition usually have zero symptoms when they're not being EXP OS to some sort of heat stimulus
I've said before you know you can get cineraria from either active heat or passive heat active heat being like exercising or forcing your body temperature to raise passive heating is when you're just sitting there and the air temperature becomes warm or you know becomes hot outside or whatever and you're not really doing anything physical so you can get col energic tic carry with either of those either of those two stimuluses um once your body temperature RIS then you're going to start experiencing the symptoms and when I try to describe this I usually try to break
it down in the sort of steps or points of what happens when you have a reaction and this is what would happen with me usually what happens is first of all whenever you begin whenever your body begins to become heated you would get an uncomfortable sensation on your skin this would always sort of feel like I could already sort of feel my skin sort of doing something weird it just felt it's hard to describe it just sort of felt like sort of tight and maybe like a little bit of a warming sensation it was uncomfortable
I kind of try to compare it to like if you ever try to wear like a really wool sweater or something like really uncomfortable material and you put it on your skin how just sort of like H you know it's on your skin it's sort of this icky feeling that's how it sort of felt to me right before I would have the reaction in most cases The Next Step would be extreme prickling and itching and this is again kind of hard to describe because I would have never known what this feels like if I never
had this condition but it's kind of like someone Pricks you with the with the needle for a split second but then at the same time so it sort of stings and hurts but at the same time it's this unbearable itching sensation like you want to scratch to try to alleviate it but at the same time scratching really doesn't help it so you kind of have this itching and prickly tingling sensation on your skin it can kind of occur all over sometimes like hundreds of times at once so it's almost unimaginable the torture and feeling that
this thing can leave on you I mean it's crazy um your skin can also kind of burn Sometimes some people kind of describe like a burning sensation and that would happen to me usually as the hives are kind of leveling off or once they kind of reach their Peak I would kind of feel that burning sensation your skin can flush during a reaction which is again just turning red especially in the areas you scratched you may kind of see some red raised claw marks where you were scratching yourself you can have little pinpoint hives and
these can be different sizes on different people but with colon ticaria usually it's the size of a small pinpoint if you take like a felt Point pin or something like that or just a a ball pointing pin and if you just kind of made a DOT on your skin that was about roughly the size that they would happen on me and these again when you don't have conic erary you don't have any symptoms you don't have redness you don't have hives you don't have nothing this only happens when you start to get hot and these
hives would form on your skin and as soon as the reaction's over usually within 10 minutes 30 minutes or some people have talked up to like maybe an hour or even a little longer but usually these hives all your symptoms they disappear again once you cool down so it kind of happens and then you kind of cool down and then it goes away you can also get small wheels again that was usually on me that was usually whenever I just scratched myself it would become like a red scratch Mark that would sometimes raise up on
my skin just a little bit some people can also have dermatographic ticaria or dermographism it's sometimes called and that can and a lot of these hives conditions can kind of overlap people may have two or three different types of physical hives and so that's something also that can happen and another symptom is is you may not be able to sweat at all and hydrosis is what that the medical terms called and I had this problem I cannot break a sweat for the life of me for the longest time I went for like I think a
year or two with literally like no sweat coming out of my skin because it was just I had such a reactive body with this hives and I just could not get a drop of sweat out without breaking out in the hives and it was just unbearable I couldn't even sometimes I would just stay in my room all day or in my house with the air conditioner because I just literally could not not do anything outside or do anything physical I could exercise can do anything it was just unbearable and so those are sort of the
steps and once you cool down the reaction kind of goes away what's interesting also is that I could be like breaking out in hives and if I would jump in a cold shower really quickly or if I would go from like I was outside and it was really hot and I could go really quickly into a really air conditioned room a lot of times it can just stop the reaction dead in its track and you'll kind of cool down and you'll quit and I kind of use that strategy sometimes and I would take like a
squirt bottle or like an ice pack or something sometimes and that would kind of help me I remember when I had a really bad I could even go shopping with my wife at the grocery store sometimes IID just walk into a grocery store start breaking out hies I'd try to rush to the freezer section just to kind of cool my body down that's how bad and how crazy this thing can job you and take you to some extreme links to just try to you know handle the situation but um let's see uh what else with
the symtoms those are the main things sometimes people ask questions and I'll cover this in another video but they'll be like well what can you have call energic to carry if you don't get the hives or you know what if you do you always get red or do always have wheels you know it can vary with different people the main symptoms I would say is just that whenever you get hot if every time you get hot CU regardless of whether it's active heating or passive passive heating if you're starting to get this prickly really itchy
sensation all over your body when you get hot there's a strong chance you have this you can always talk to a doctor to get a to confirm a diagnosis and you can always you know have some blood teston or whatever just to make sure that it's nothing else but if that's the main thing you have that's the biggest indicator when I first got it I would just get this really prickly sensation and I wouldn't really have any physical symptoms then after a few months it kind of progressed to where I would get really red like
my skin would get really bright red on my chest or wherever I was my upper torso was the main area I would have the reaction so that would be what would get really red and then after a while especially in the last few years when I had it the most severe I would break out and hives everywhere like my whole body would just light up with these little dots hundreds if not like thousands and thousands of these little pinpoint hives all over my body so I could have a reaction have thousands of pinpoint hives all
over my body scratching myself like crazy and torment and then 5 10 20 minutes later it's all gone I'm back to normal I look fine it's a really bizarre condition and the way that it works like that so yeah you don't so again it just it kind of varies what your symptoms will be you may and so and even some people don't and they're the lucky ones they don't even have itching as bad or the stinging they'll just get hives on their body so they'll have these hives and they don't really itch that bad to
them or anything but they've got all these hives off over the body I always called them the lucky ones because man the worst part to me was the stinging and the itching it would drive me insane and so you know some people they might have itching and stinging and no hives some people might have hives with no itching and stinging you may have flushing you may not have flushing you may have U Wheels you may not again so just kind of varies the biggest indicator I always tell people in my personal opinion is that there's
a strong chance you have col anergic tic car it if you get that either hives or a prickly stinging itching sensation whenever you get hot so I have some pictures of it also on my website and I have a little small picture in this video I don't know if it shows up very well but you can go to my website and you'll see a few pictures of it on there of when I had it at the worst and I have some you can see several small hives just in this one picture and that's a small
part of my torso it was always hard for me to capture the hives on camera for some reason my camera just really did not want to pick it up but in person it was very just very intense looking my life would be shocked sometimes at how my skin looked and I would go get a camera then take a picture and I try to post on my blog and I'd be like man this picture doesn't even really look that bad if people could really understand what I look like probably they'd be like whoa but anyway that
pretty much concludes the symptoms um and kind of what happens and again if you start to break out hives if you jump in a cool room or cold shower or something you'll be surprised at how quickly a lot of times I can just stop the reaction dead in its tracks and that's a strategy I would try to use but it's not a very good strategy a lot of times but in I have a lot of these articles on my website and I want to put some more videos out there if you have if you're suffering
with these symptoms right now my thoughts and prayers go out to you I've had this on off for 12 years I'm going to be making a lot more videos so I've been able to overcome it I I prayed about this relentlessly and I feel like God did answer my prayers and how he answered my prayers was that I was able to find out through a lot of trial and error that most of the hives issues that I was dealing with came from my diet so when I got my diet cleaned up and I began really
taking care of my health and my body trying to exercise regularly and so forth and it was very difficult to do in the beginning I'll go through that but um I finally was able to get everything under control so you can check out those videos later on when I get them up and you'll or read the website now I have the Articles already on the website so but anyway that concludes this video so thanks so much for watching
