What is Hives?
Hives are an allergic reaction.

What causes of Hives?
The body’s immune system is normally responsible for protection from foreign invaders.
When it becomes sensitized to normally harmless substances, the resulting reaction is called an allergy.
An attack of hives is set off when such a substance, called an allergen, is ingested, inhaled, or otherwise contacted.
It interacts with immune cells called mast cells, which reside in the skin, airways, and digestive system. When mast cells encounter an allergen, they release histamine and other chemicals, both locally and into the bloodstream.
These chemicals cause blood vessels to become more porous, allowing fluid to accumulate in tissue and leading to the swollen and reddish appearance of hives. Some of the chemicals released sensitize pain-related nerve endings, causing the affected area to become itchy and sensitive.

Hives Treatment
There are various of hives treatment.
For home remedies to relieve itching associated with hives, an oatmeal bath may help.
Crushed or chopped Chickweed (use as poultice) directly to the skin or added to bath water, may also relieve itching.
Vitamin C and B12 are helpful to control acute of chronic hives.

For homeopathic treatment, cure for hives which have ingredient such as Arnica Montana are helpful to treat hives.

Arnica montana grown in herb gardens and has long been used medicinally. It contains the toxin helenalin, which can be poisonous if large amounts of the plant are eaten.
Contact with the plant can also cause skin irritation. The roots contain derivatives of thymol, which are used as fungicides and preservatives and may have some anti-inflammatory effect.

Arnica is currently used in liniment and ointment preparations used for strains, sprains, and bruises feeling that can accompany a hives outbreak.
The thymol derivatives concentrated in the plants’ roots have been clinically shown to be effective vasodilators of subcutaneous blood capillaries.

Other ingredients such as Rhus Toxicodendron is helfpul for anti-iflammatory properties and effective against hives, shingles rashes and all types of itchy eruptions.
This plant from the anacardiaceae family grows in field and wooded areas in North America. The plant is commonly identified by its point leaves that grow in threes.
As homeopathic remedies, Rhus toxicodendron used to treat of complaints; poison ivy, chicken pox, back pain, colds, herpess, hives, flu, mumps, measles, sore throat, nerve pain, muscle strains and sprains, dermatitis, arthritis, bursitis, carpal tunnel, rheumatism and fevers.

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