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Q: Allergy to heat or water ?
asked by: madrina2u on March 8th, 2009
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My 19 year old daughter has developed what we think is an allergy within the past several months to water and or heat.

If she comes in contact with anything warm or hot be it holding a cup of coffee or in water/showering her hands and random parts of her body that come in contact with the heat/water break out, swell and whelp up.

It also happens if she eats anything hot her mouth will do the same thing

What should we do?
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MandMs
replied on March 12th, 2009
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It seems that your daughter has a case of urticaria or hives.
It is a group of disorders affecting adults and children, in which red patches and weals occur in the skin. This skin rash can be accompanied with swelling on any part of the body including the face, lips, tongue, throat or ears, too.
Urticaria that appears daily or almost daily for at least six weeks or more, is known as chronic urticaria and its trigger usually isn't an allergen and a identifiable cause for the problem is rarely found (often due to autoimmune disease, associated with other autoimmune conditions, like lupus, thyroiditis, celiac disease).
I think your daughter is suffering from a physical urticaria, a type of urticaria induced by external physical influences.
Some people suffer from a mixture of different types of physical urticaria and generalized urticaria (she may have Aquagenic urticaria or reaction to water; Cholinergic, reaction to body heat, such as when exercising or after a hot shower, and, Heat urticaria, with reaction to hot food or objects.

Best wishes!
Marija
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