Five Contributing Factors To The Difficulties In Treating Urticaria

For those who are undergoing treatments for the condition called urticaria, there are five factors that can be readily identified that makes the whole thing an ordeal for them. Although many people do not know what urticaria is, they are actually more familiar with its common name, which is 'hives'. Many people actually accept that it is a condition they can live with, naturally, after exhausting all avenues of treatment that are available to them.
Urticaria treatments become even more of a challenge primarily because of the fact that no specific causative agent could be identified as the cause of the condition. This is the first factor. Mostly it is identified as one of those physiological malfunctions whose main cause cannot really be pinpointed exactly. If it was a condition caused by some type of pathogen, the research challenge would be to find medications to eliminate the bug. At least that would be quite a manageable task. When it comes to dealing with a condition that has all the hallmarks of an autoimmune reaction, things get a bit tricky.
The next factor would be the fact that urticaria is a condition that has multiple triggers. There are cases where it seems to be manifesting when the predisposed folks are exposed to specific allergens. Then there are cases where it is clearly not an allergic condition/reaction. You would find yourself having a hard time trying to figure out what triggers it in an individual. Not knowing what is triggering the condition makes its treatment very difficult because, really, you have no idea what you are supposed to prevent. That is because there are hardly any universal treatments. You would have to identify the triggers for your condition and make use of some management strategies to pull a rein on those triggers.
Third on the list of factors that prove urticaria treatments to be a challenge is how one person can be faced with more than one or two triggers for his urticaria condition . Thus, the fact that a trigger has been finally identified doesn't necessarily mean that the condition will be successfully managed. It could be that once you were able to manage one trigger, there would be another one to take its place. A person's predisposition to urticaria is the one constant through the whole thing. When it comes to the specific triggers, they can change ' even for the same person.
Fourth on the list of factors that could make urticaria treatments very challenging is the high risk of misdiagnosis. This is always a huge clinical challenge in the management of all conditions.
Finally, fifth on the list of the factors is the risk that the body of the patient will develop an immunity to urticaria treatments after a prolonged period of being subjected to the said treatments. Although a trigger has been identified in a patient and it has been managed, the manageability could only be for a limited period of time only.