What should acute urticaria eat?
Key points of home care for children with urticaria ◎ First find out the allergen that causes this skin problem. ◎ Avoid pathogenic environment. Parents can try to recall the environment in which their children were sick or what food they ate, and then try to reduce the chance of contact again in the future. ◎ The skin should be kept clean and dry to prevent secondary infection. The child's nails should be cut short. For older children, try to persuade them not to scratch with their hands. When the skin itches, you can apply some antipruritic drugs, such as white lotion or furnace skin lotion. ◎ Diet should pay attention to avoid eating foods related to urticaria, such as cod liver oil, shrimp, eggs, milk and other animal proteins, commonly known as "hair". Eat more green food and carbohydrate food, and try to eat less irritating food. [Edit this paragraph] The treatment of urticaria in children can also be divided into acute and chronic. Acute urticaria is relatively easy to treat, but the treatment time of chronic urticaria needs to be prolonged. Children with acute urticaria's onset of expect the unexpected, the skin can appear abnormal itching in an instant. With itching and scratching, red and reddish rashes of different sizes and shapes soon appear; Some of them are ring-shaped or can be combined into large blocks, which will quickly fade away in about 10 minutes to several hours without leaving any trace. The location of the rash is uncertain. If you scratch your child's normal skin with a needle, a red papule consistent with the scratch may appear. Most children have no other discomfort except itchy skin; Fever, headache, suffocation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and other discomfort occurred in a few children with visceral involvement; In severe cases, there are shock manifestations such as pallor, dyspnea and decreased blood pressure. If children have recurrent urticaria for more than six weeks, it will become chronic urticaria. The cause of the disease is not necessarily related to food, and many other factors may cause chronic urticaria in children. Such as temperature changes, physical changes (such as scratching), dust, pollen, stockings and other local skin irritation, emotional vascular tension and so on. For example, some people are allergic to cold water and some people are allergic to hot water, which may cause chronic urticaria in children. Also-more than half of patients may not find obvious treatment reasons at all. There are many reasons for the formation of chronic urticaria in children, so doctors will ask the medical history in great detail when they meet such patients, and ask patients to avoid possible factors as much as possible. Because the disease may recur, it is recommended not to use injection drugs, because long-term use has great side effects, so it is best to use oral drugs to maintain the drug concentration in the blood. However, most children with chronic urticaria will have symptoms such as drowsiness and general weakness after taking the medicine. Therefore, it is best for patients to cooperate with trusted doctors for a long time, and don't change doctors as soon as they feel that drugs are ineffective.