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Doctors diagnosed her with aquagenic urticaria - a condition so rare that are only 50 known. If you think that peanut allergies are a pain, wait until you hear about this girl. 17-year-old ...
As a child, Tessa Hansen-Smith played, swam, took baths, and drank lots of water - until things took a turn and she began to develop symptoms which changed her life forever
Aquagenic urticaria differs from aquagenic pruritus, in which contact with water evokes intense itching without visible hives or rash. [18] [19] [20] Once known as a separate, rare disease, aquagenic urticaria is now considered a subtype of general urticaria. [21] The first case was reported by Walter B Shelley et al. in 1964. [22]
A college student suffering from an extremely rare allergy is speaking out about her condition, which affects just one in every 230 million people.
Aquagenic pruritus is a skin condition characterized by the development of severe, intense, prickling-like epidermal itching without observable skin lesions and evoked by contact with water. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Hives, also known as urticaria, is a kind of skin rash with red and/or flesh-colored, raised, itchy bumps. [1] Hives may burn or sting. [2] The patches of rash may appear on different body parts, [2] with variable duration from minutes to days, and do not leave any long-lasting skin change. [2]
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Big changes are coming to South Carolina high schools’ largest athletic classification. The S.C. High School League’s realignment committee voted in favor to split Class 5A into two divisions ...