Aquagenic urticaria is a disease, affecting the skin and was until recently, incurable.
It is an auto-immune condition, which is partially genetic, and triggered by certain environmental factors.
Once the disease starts spreading, it should be treated quickly.
Keep reading to learn more.
In order to treat aquagenic urticaria, you need the right approach.
Using drugs to suppress your immune system does not work in the case of urticaria, since the disease is not caused by t-cell granulomas, and affects the surface layer of the skin.
Your body is the cause of the disease, and the only way to permanently get rid of it is to 'enable' the body to eliminate the condition by itself.
That can be accomplished fairly easily.
Lots of clinical trials were conducted, trying to find a cure for this type of urticaria.
Only recently, scientists started looking at the so-called 'spontaneous remission' cases.
As it turns out, all of those had things in common - they supplied their bodies with a certain amino-acid, which is not present in people with urticaria.
Once the protein is given to the body, it binds with the white blood cells, as it should be in a healthy person.
As a result, the disease subsides quickly.
The only cases, in which the protein did not work were the mis-diagnosed ones - sometimes urticaria is mistaken for skin cancer, or other skin conditions, which do look similar.
Aquagenic urticaria forms bubbles underneath the skin, and often mimics scleroderma, or other skin auto-immune diseases.
That's why it is very important to be diagnosed by a doctors, who has years of experience with auto-immune diseases exclusively.
If you are mis-diagnosed you are risking a lot of time, which could be spend treating other conditions.
It is very important for people do educate themselves, when it comes to this condition, as new research is constantly conducted, and clinical trials performed.