chronic hives part two

sometimes peoples hives are severe . They can go on for years and create major itching wihich is a low level of pain. The patients have an inability to concentrate or sleep interfering with their life.Usually we will increase the antihistamines above the normal levels. The patients continue to struggle with symptoms. Prednisone is used to acutely control the symptoms. However steroid sparing agents such as cyclosporin dapsone cellcept and plaquinil have been used to control chronic urticaria arthur lubitz m.d. FAAAAI www.nycallergydoctor.com