Is urticaria cured by improving immunity

The answer is really not absolute. Many people even blindly supplement their immunity and force their bodies to "enhance immunity", which in turn makes urticaria worse.

Two years ago, I met a 17-year-old girl in a patient group. She had chronic urticaria on and off for two years. I heard that urticaria was caused by low immunity, so she ate 3 spoons of protein powder every day, various Ganoderma spore powders, and multivitamins. She even signed up for a boxing class and practiced for two hours a day, hoping to improve her immunity through exercise. It turned out that it was just a small wheal at the beginning of her wrist and ankle, and the itching disappeared in half an hour. After half a month of hard work, her face became swollen, and even her throat felt tight and painful. I went to the emergency room to check her immune indicators and found out that she had IgE-mediated allergic urticaria. The immune cells themselves were too "excited" and mistook pollen, dust mites and other harmless things as foreign enemies to attack. If you buff the immunity at this time, isn't it equivalent to delivering cannonballs to the immune cells rushing in front, making the attack more fierce?

Of course, this does not mean that adjusting immunity is completely useless for urticaria. You must first figure out which way your immunity is skewed. I worked on a project for three weeks at the end of last year, sleeping only three or four hours a day. I also had a round of flu during that period. After the fever subsided, I suddenly developed acute urticaria. My arms and legs were covered with red wheals. I couldn't sleep all night due to itchiness. When I went to see the doctor, they said that my immunity was too low during this period, and my immune cells were "on strike" and I couldn't treat it in time. The inflammatory mediators in my body were metabolized and I had no strength to maintain normal immune tolerance, so I was prescribed some antihistamines and told me not to take supplements blindly, sleep well, and just take a walk every day. I adjusted my schedule honestly for a week, did not do high-intensity exercise, and did not take the full course of medication. The rash completely disappeared, and it has not relapsed since.

Nowadays, many people have great misunderstandings about "immunity". They always think that the higher the better. In fact, immunity is more like a scale. If it is low, it is easy to be bullied by pathogens. If it is high or disordered, it is easy to hit others. Urticaria is a typical problem related to immune imbalance, especially chronic urticaria with a course of more than 6 weeks. Nearly one-third of them are self-induced. Regarding body immunity, to put it bluntly, the immune cells recognize the wrong person. In this case, no matter how many health products you take to improve immunity, it will be useless. On the contrary, it may interfere with normal immune regulation. It is better to go to the hospital to find out the cause of the disease. If it is caused by allergies, try to avoid allergens. If it is an immune disorder, follow the doctor's advice to adjust the immune balance. Don't just take supplements.

To put it bluntly, if you really want to adjust your immunity to help relieve urticaria, don't engage in extreme exercise or heavy supplements. Sleep regularly for 7 hours, eat a balanced diet, and do moderate exercise three or four times a week. Any supplement is more effective than any other supplement. Many patients I know who have well-controlled chronic urticaria don't take any special "immune supplements." They just adjust their daily routine and the frequency of attacks will naturally decrease.