Home remedies for Urticaria -Skin rashes- How to manage urticaria at home
In this post, you will see about urticaria, cause and its link with covid-19, and home remedies for urticaria to manage it at home.
Urticaria is one of the commonly appearing post covid symptoms; it starts with skin itching followed by red bulging rashes. Sometimes you may get swelling in lips, eye lids also.
If you have dry skin condition along with urticaria, it can even keep you awake from sleeping. So, you need to keep the skin well hydrated.
Urticaria is a condition in which your body reacts to some of the allergens and causes allergic reactions. The reaction appears through your skin, with itching, then red rashes.
Cause of urticaria / skin rashes
If you are allergic person, then it’s there in blood from the beginning. Just that some of the allergens trigger it at some point of time, which causes allergic reactions such as wheezing, rashes and rhinitis.
The cause of urticaria could be anything from food, perfumes, bed mites, air conditioner, air conditioner’s dust from duct, environmental dust, detergents, cloth comforters, new dresses, pollens, new environment, bed bugs, mites, mosquitoes and much more possibilities are there. Any of these could have triggered your condition.
Coronovirus which causes covid-19 triggers urticaria in many people. For some people, skin rashes are the initial symptom of cvid-19. It aggrevates eczema as well. These symptoms sometimes lasts longer for months, which is known as post-covid syndromes.
Another set of possibilities that could trigger this condition could be thyroid imbalance, autoimmune diseases, and/or the underlying medical conditions.
To identify the cause, you should pay attention to the changes in your environment or medical conditions.
You should consult the doctor when you have severe or unbreable itching and rashes. Your doctor may run some of the tests like thyroid, liver and kidney tests, lge and few more tests to see which triggers it.
If it’s not related to internal body problems, then you can make sure it is due to external triggers like food or environmental conditions.
Before you proceed to check on home remedies of urticaria, I request you to check some of my other posts such as benefits walking barefoot, benefits of ponnaganni keerai, benefits of mudakathan keerai and home remedy for constipation.
Home remedies for urticaria
While acute urticaria needs medical treatment from medical experts, the less severe urticaria can be managed at home with some of the home remedies.
Dermatology practitioners advise these home remedies. You can follow all or few of them depending on your symptoms control and convenience. Let us see the home remedies for urticaria here.
1. Identify the cause of allergy
While you manage your urticaria with the above mentioned home remedies, the most important and best cure would be identifying the allergens and removing them from your environment. So, identify which triggers your rashes and try to get rid of it.
2. Neem leaves and Indian nettle leaves paste
Both neem leaves and indian nettle leaves (kuppaimeni in tamil) are beneficial to skin and these two leaves can solve many of the skin problems. You must have known about neem leaves already. If you are not aware of kuppaimeni benefits, its hightime to know about it. It is such a good medicine for skin related issues.
Take handful of neem leaves and Indian nettle leaves. Grind them together to form a paste. Or you can take neem leaves powder and indian nettle leaves powder in 1:1 ratio. Add a tsp of turmeric powder and mix together. Apply this paste on your body and leave it for 20 to 30 minutes. Then wash with normal water without using any soaps or washes.
This works well if you have any kind skin allegies including rashes. Its soothing to the skin and you will feel relived from itching. The plus is, it will improve your skin complexion as well.
3. Olive oil
The simple one ingredient that could sooth your skin is olive oil.
Even the doctors advise to apply olive oil to manage urticaria at home. Apply olive oil on your body before going to bed in the night.
4. Coconut oil
While the olive oil takes the first place in managing skin rashes, coconut oil can also be used to sooth the dry skin.
5. Water
Drink water as required by your body depending on the climate you live. Keep yourself hydrated. This will keep your skin hydrated and avoids the possibility of getting dry skin in long run.
Wash your skin with water and pat dry with towel, it will sooth the dry irritating skin.
6. Icepack massage
Placing icepack on the affected areas will help you to sooth the skin and relieve you for sometime.
7. Soaps and washes
Your doctor may prescribe body washes and body creams, that are good for your skin, which will help to avoid the occurrence rashes.
The general rule is that avoid the soaps and washes that dry your skin. You should choose the soaps and washes without color and much fragrance. The less color and fragrance, the more it is for your skin.
Applying the body cream on damp skin will help retain moisture in the skin. This will also help you sooth itching skin.
8. Antihistamines
Taking antihistamines tablets can cure milder urticaria that comes there for short term. But, it is always advisable to consult a dermatologist practitioner before taking any medication.
Seek medical practitioner help on time if your skin rashes are severe.
