this is registered nurse RN Colin and today I'm making a video on cholinergic urticaria before I get started I just want to say that I'm not a doctor and a lot of things that you're gonna be watching in these videos about cholinergic urticaria and also on the website has some you know medical related issues and you never want to try anything whether it be a diet or a medication or exercise program before you can saw a doctor so it's really important that you talk to a doctor before you do anything that you ever see or
hear in this video or on the website okay now my name is Ben and I've had cholinergic urticaria on and off for over 12 years now I'm a guy who started the cholinergic urticaria dotnet website which I later merged into registered nurse on call I did that for a variety of reasons which I've talked about in an article on the website but I'll make a video perhaps explaining that later on but in this video I just kind of want to go through the brief overview of cholinergic urticaria but you know you're not alone and I'm
gonna be making a lot more videos over this over the next few weeks on this topic so you may want to subscribe to the YouTube channel or just you can go to the website itself and every article I'll probably embed the video in the article itself so okay what is cholinergic you to carrier where does it get its name first of all cholinergic just means related to acetylcholine acetylcholine is a chemical used in the parasympathetic nervous system it acts as a neurotransmitter and this seems to be involved as cholinergic you to carrier reactions and basically
what happens is whenever the nerve endings whenever acetylcholine is released at the nerve endings in the skin that can initiate a house response for some reason and they don't know a lot about it exactly but that seems to have a role in it and that's where it's got its name cholinergic the term art occur hurtak area just means hives that's the medical term for hives so if you put them together call energy to carry and you have hives related to acetylcholine it's also called heat hives because basically whenever you become hot you know whether it's
exercise whether it's active heating like exercise or something like that or passive heating like if you're just sitting in a room the air temperature gets hot all of a sudden either those things can invoke a reaction and people with this condition okay and some of the examples that can sell for reaction if you take a hot shower or bath these spicy foods I can raise your body temperature and cause a reaction if you exercise or do anything physical like you're out working or something like that you can get a reaction if you have a moment
of extreme stress or anxiety you could get a reaction if you have some kind of strong emotional response you know you're very sad like watching a movie you start to cry you may start to get the prickly tingly sensation in your body if you laugh if you're angry anything like that can raise your body temperature and cause you to have a hops reaction and even transitioning like if you're outside walking and it's a cold winter day and you walk into I know a store or you know your college classroom or something like that it's hot
you can actually start breaking out in hives and that's happened to me numerous times also over the years it's not fun and what causes this I'm gonna make a separate video over you know a little bit about the causes but basically they don't know exactly what develops at this point that I've read some research indicates it could be an autoimmune condition to your sweat or your sweat serum there may even be different subsets of cholinergic urticaria that's something that some articles seem to suggest and I think that you know it could definitely be related to
just food allergies things like that I've known in my own experience which I'll talk about later that a lot of the foods already which cause my own magic you to carry symptoms to go through the roof and if I go through an extreme diet where I just really bland foods that I know my body tolerates well in my cholinergic getting curious symptoms pretty much evaporating so we don't really know the cause and you know a lot of people have some different ideas and theories I'll talk about that some more later now as far as the
signs and symptoms what happens is usually a person with cholinergic urticaria will become hot like I said reasons earlier could be passive active heating but neither why'd you become hot and some of the things you'll feel the sudden you'll feel extremely itchy and steaming or burning sensation in your skin you can kind of come in waves or random areas kind of feels like you're being stung by bees all over your body or maybe bitten by fire ants always sort of imagine someone standing there with a little needle and pricking me everywhere on my body and
you can also get red flushing on your skin that's where you know if you ever get barest your face will kind of turn red flushing is basically just that your skin just turning red from the increased blood flow and you can do that in the areas where you break out in hives you can also give small pinpoint times and oh oh no if you can see the picture very well on this video I've embedded a small picture but they're just usually they were usually small on me like if you take it neat pan and just
poked a dot on your skin that's about how large they were and they usually appear when the reaction happens and for me that would usually disappear within just five ten minutes sometimes like thirty minutes at the longest and they're gone you never even knew that you had hives you can also get small wheels on your skin that's just kind of like a raised area of skin where you scratch yourself I would have like redness when I would scratch myself they usually what raise up into a very large developed wheel but you can't get wheels sometimes
with this and you can also have an hydrosis and what that means is just a reduced ability to sweat that's a big problem and a lot of people is calling rgq to care they find it really difficult to break a sweat and I remember the time I had absolute worst I could work out I mean I would wear jeans a big jacket turn a heater on and have it like probably 80 90 degrees and I could work out for 30 40 minutes and I would my skin would be bone dry and I'd be breaking out
how's that crazy and I just could not get a job a sweat out on my skin luckily now I can still have but that is a big problem for people as far as the treatments there are a lot of different ways you can try to treat this ultimately nothing really cures it in most cases but you can try to control the symptoms and I'll go through this a little bit but again I'm gonna make a video more in-depth on this but people think things like antihistamines of course you can always try avoidance which is avoiding
physical activity spicy foods that can help in some cases corticosteroids which usually only used for extreme cases and I wouldn't recommend them unless you know you just have a terrible case of you're on death's door or something anabolic steroids have been used sometimes UVB therapy sweat or exercise therapy diet changes which is the biggest exercise and diet is now the biggest things on for but mostly diet that's what I push personally and that's what's helped me the most but and that's the most common treatments and again there are more and I'll go through that more
in depth in another video it Kenneth corner interview care can also be sort of seasonal sometimes some people can have it worse in the winter months when it gets cooler the humidity levels drop and their skin kind of becomes dried out and they go through those extreme temperature changes from cold to hot in the summer some people have a little bit of relief they can actually sweat even sometimes and when I had it at the worst I can get relief even in the summer but now I can you know I can sweat pretty much year-round
and you know that's something that you want to keep in mind are you gonna have cholinergic you carry forever are you gonna die from it well first of all it's usually not fatal or terminal which is the good news it can be very aggravating and annoying and depressing but in most cases unless you've got this house like a side effect of something crazy with your body like if you've got some crazy cancer or something then you might get cholinergic you to carry along with it but in most cases it's just it's its own condition it's
not usually usually fatal and so that's something that I was really happy to find out about as far as how long you can have this it really just depends some people go their whole house with it almost and some people have it when I had the forum up and some people had it for upwards of like I think 30 or 40 years they lived with it the average duration of coal nergic area according to the medicine comp study was seven years I was average someone who had this condition and in my experience what happens a
lot of people kind of have it on and off they might they might kind of go away from them they don't have any symptoms that comes back they don't really know what causes this sometimes and you know you can go through periods of your life where it'll go away come back go away come back sometimes people might have it throughout their a lifetime once they acquire it it most often presents itself and it's teens that's the most common time people will get pissed you know I got it when I was 18 years old that's when
I first popped up in me some people on the forum back when I had that I had children you know as long as young as like infants practically they had this and they're also elderly people or people you know and there are 60 70s with this so it's not uncommon at all to have this at any age range although it's more common perhaps most common in the late teen years that's why it usually develops in most people and so let's see that's that's the general overview that I'll give them this video I won't keep you
too long but I'll let you view the specific videos if you want and yeah I'll put a link in the video description of mold website as well that if you want to go and check out some of the articles I've written there but overall I'm gonna make some videos so stay tuned and thank you for watching this have a great day
