Urticaria Treatment in Ayurveda

Prevent Recurrence, Get Rid of Welts & Remove Toxicity from the Body with Ayurvedic Medicines, Panchakarma, Diet & Lifestyle Modifications

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Let’s Know about Urticaria

Urticaria is a very uncomfortable condition that can make your daily life quite difficult. If it reaches a chronic stage, the difficulties reach another level. Ayurveda refers to this disease as ‘Sheet-Pitta’ that is an inappropriate response to the environment. Ayurveda rectifies this condition with herbal medicines and natural therapies. Unlike conventional treatments, Ayurvedic urticaria medicines treat the condition by deep toxification and immunity boost up. It is a widely accepted approach as it leaves no side effects and ensures permanent relief from urticaria.

What is Urticaria?

Urticaria, also known as hives, is the appearance of red, itchy, skin-coloured welts anywhere on the body and is caused by an allergic reaction to certain substances or some environmental factors. Most of the welts fade in an hour to twenty-four hour time period.

In chronic cases of Urticaria, the welts appear for more than six weeks and frequently recur over months. Chronic Urticaria or chronic Hives is a very uncomfortable condition that affects sleep and daily life activities.

Types of Urticaria

Acute Urticaria: When the urticaria hives occur for less than six months it is Acute Urticaria. Due to strong medications, food items like eggs, fish, seafood, fruits, etc; respiratory allergen, infections, and psychogenic factors happen.
Chronic Urticaria: This one lasts for more than six months and may continue up to years. It is caused by autoimmune disorders and hereditary factors.

Symptomes or Causes of Urticaria

Symptomes

Urticaria symptoms include red or skin-coloured welts anywhere on the body, severe itching, painful swelling on the eyelids, inside the throat, and around the lips.

Common causes of Urticaria’s include:

Allergic reactions
Food with chemicals
Sunlight exposure
The side effect of some medicines specifically the ones with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics.
Insect bites
Food preservatives
Intestinal parasites
Extreme body temperatures
Bacterial infections like strep throat and urinary tract infections
Food items like wheat products, strawberries, eggs, food additives, shellfish, and nuts.
Skin-irritating plants like poison oak, poison ivy, and nettles.
Chronic illnesses like lupus and thyroid disease
Pollen and latex
Vaccination
Bees and wasp stings
Hepatitis
Kidney dysfunction
Infections

The basic reason for chronic urticaria is still unknown but usually, it is an autoimmune response.

Diagnosis and Urticaria Ayurvedic Treatment

Urticaria diagnosis includes a thorough physical exam along with details of your daily activities, medications, supplements, eating habits, and history of hives.

Ayurveda describes Urticaria as Sheetpitta. A weak digestive fire produces Aam (toxic undigested material), a harmful material that induces specific allergic reactions in the body, leading to Urticaria symptoms.

Ayurvedic Urticaria treatment aims to remove toxic material from the body. The treatment plan is devised according to the stage of urticaria. Panchakarma therapies used for this purpose include:

Vamana and Virechana – It offers immediate relief from the symptoms.
Medication – Herbal medicines like Haridrakhandam, patolakaturohinyadi, etc.
Herbs: Herbs like Triphala, Nishotha, amrita, Katuki, nimaba, and Haridra are used for urticaria natural treatment.

Preventions for Urticaria

Application of mustard oil or a soft paste of aloe vera gel over the skin and eating one teaspoon Triphala Choorna at night with warm water can relieve Urticaria symptoms at home.
A patient of Urticaria should avoid spicy, salty, sour food, fast food, curd, non-vegetarian food, including eggs.
Fresh and easily digestible foods, sufficient water quantity, and fruits and vegetables help in a speedy recovery.
If your doctor has identified the trigger of urticaria, you must make it a point to avoid the trigger.
Urticaria treatment is a long term process and its effects might be reduced if you skip your medicines. Make sure that doesn’t happen often.
Make sure that your skin doesn’t get dry. Make sure you keep your skin moisturized and avoid taking frequent baths.
Avoid wearing skin fitting clothes. Even your footwear needs to be open and comfortable. Tight-fitting shoes can lead to hives in your soles.
If you are experiencing hives due to sunlight, make sure you ask your doctor for a vitamin D supplement.
Urticaria hives are also triggered by emotional stress. If that is the case with you, try finding healthy ways to manage your emotions.
Depression and anxiety are also known as triggers of chronic hives. Talk to a therapist if you must, that may really help in relieving some emotional pressure.

Our Approach To Urticaria Treatment

Ayurvedic Treatment

A patient with Urticaria needs to consult with our Ayurveda doctor. A detailed evaluation of the diet, lifestyle, duration, and symptoms of the disease makes the basis of the prescription. In initial cases, the doctor prescribes Ayurveda medicines for Urticaria, diet, and lifestyle changes. The doctor may prescribe Panchakarma therapies like Vaman and Virechan in chronic cases, along with medications. Almost all the patients of Urticaria respond well to the Ayurvedic treatment. It may take about three to six months for a complete cure. A patient with Urticaria can consult with our Ayurveda expert either by visiting the hospital or online video consultation.

The Benefits of Ayurveda for Urticaria treatment at Prakash Nethralaya

Investigates The Root Cause

The Ayurvedic approach to illness looks for the fundamental causes of the disease rather than symptoms. The main causative factor of the disease is removed from the patient's daily routine. Once the diagnosis is confirmed, treatment is decided from the available two directions as per the classics. First one is Shodhan (detoxification) to clean the body with the help of Panchakarma therapies and the another is Shaman (balancing the doshas) by using Ayurveda medicines, diet correction and lifestyle adjustments. Detoxification with Panchakarma improves the efficacy of Ayurveda medicines in chronic and advanced cases.

Medicines Are Safe To Take

Ayurveda medications are not manufactured in a synthetic or chemical form but in their natural state. Because of this, the herbs are gentle on the body, and there is no chance of side effect or adverse reactions, regardless of the length of time the patient takes them. At Prakash Nethralaya, we use the best quality Ayurveda medicines to ensure the safest and fastest recovery. There is in house processing and dispensing of the medicines for our patients. A few medicines are made available from the good manufacturing companies also.

Uses Holistic Strategy

Ayurveda is based on the idea that each person has a distinct personality and body type and, as a result, their treatment. Ayurveda places more emphasis on treating the patient rather than treating the ailment. The physical composition of two different people with the same ailment may need a different therapeutic approach. An Ayurveda expert at Prakash Nethralaya uses this body type analysis and then reaches at a conclusion of diagnosis and the line of treatment. Accordingly our doctors prescribe the diet, lifestyle changes, yoga, Ayurveda medicines, and Panchakarma therapies.