Pencil Pusher
03-05-2008, 02:25 AM
I've never seen hives. I skip over those posts. I guess I'm avoiding bed, but I read the thread about random hives & even clicked on the link to Whisperlily's photo of her son's hives.
OH MY!!! My dh's back & shoulders ALWAYS look like this!
I've mentioned before that dh is allergic to pretty much everything & he's very asthmatic, etc. I've never wondered about his skin, though. I thought...it was just his coloring, poor guy!
His spots don't itch or anything, but still...I googled hives for images, & many of them look very similar to Whisperlily's pic. I was wondering why a dr has never said anything, & then I realized, they're always looking at his ears, nose, & throat. His face looks fine.
So a brief google tells me that there is such a thing as chronic hives (they last 6+ weeks), & I'm thinking if his splotches clear up in one place & break out again in another...I'd never notice, you know? I just don't pay that much attention.
I know dh is allergic to certain foods, such as milk & chocolate, but he did all the needle tests as a kid, & I'm pretty sure he tested as allergic to wheat, too. When we married, he was still eating ice cream & chocolate at will (silly!), just in moderation. :rolleyes: Since then, I've threatened him for those, but wheat he's only cut out once, doing a yeast-free thing.
Ok, I'm rambling, but one more thing. The websites that talked about chronic hives said that these are not usually food-based anyway. (Not that food is the only thing dh is allergic to, by any means.)
So what do you guys think? (On an upside & totally unrelated, dh has only been sick twice since starting his new job back in Nov, & he hasn't missed a single day of work for either of those illnesses! In the 10+ years I've known him, he's never made it a whole month w/out missing a day of work for something. Yay!!!!)
OH MY!!! My dh's back & shoulders ALWAYS look like this!
I've mentioned before that dh is allergic to pretty much everything & he's very asthmatic, etc. I've never wondered about his skin, though. I thought...it was just his coloring, poor guy!
His spots don't itch or anything, but still...I googled hives for images, & many of them look very similar to Whisperlily's pic. I was wondering why a dr has never said anything, & then I realized, they're always looking at his ears, nose, & throat. His face looks fine.
So a brief google tells me that there is such a thing as chronic hives (they last 6+ weeks), & I'm thinking if his splotches clear up in one place & break out again in another...I'd never notice, you know? I just don't pay that much attention.
I know dh is allergic to certain foods, such as milk & chocolate, but he did all the needle tests as a kid, & I'm pretty sure he tested as allergic to wheat, too. When we married, he was still eating ice cream & chocolate at will (silly!), just in moderation. :rolleyes: Since then, I've threatened him for those, but wheat he's only cut out once, doing a yeast-free thing.
Ok, I'm rambling, but one more thing. The websites that talked about chronic hives said that these are not usually food-based anyway. (Not that food is the only thing dh is allergic to, by any means.)
So what do you guys think? (On an upside & totally unrelated, dh has only been sick twice since starting his new job back in Nov, & he hasn't missed a single day of work for either of those illnesses! In the 10+ years I've known him, he's never made it a whole month w/out missing a day of work for something. Yay!!!!)