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Hives, angioedema and the cold-water problem
Hives, angioedema and the cold-water problem: this guide covers acute vs chronic spontaneous urticaria, the inducible kinds that matter in a cold country…
This guide is general education, not a diagnosis or an individual treatment plan. Urgent, severe or worsening symptoms belong with the local emergency service or a qualified clinician.
What this guide covers
This guide covers acute vs chronic spontaneous urticaria, the inducible kinds that matter in a cold country (cold urticaria, cholinergic heat hives, dermographism, pressure, solar, aquagenic), angioedema with and without hives, the ACE-inhibitor kind, hives in children after a virus, and the honest answer to "what am I allergic to" — in chronic hives, usually nothing testable.
The management page explains the guideline's stepwise non-sedating antihistamine approach and the UAS7 diary, and Every section names the anaphylaxis signs that mean 112 now. One focused section asks: "Cold urticaria: the ice-cube test and why swimming is the real risk".
How to use it
Start with the description that most closely matches your question about Hives, angioedema and the cold-water problem. Use the evidence section to understand what is known, then use the boundary section to decide when self-education should stop and clinical care should begin.
The page keeps the main question, its evidence base and its limits together in one canonical place. That makes it useful as a quick orientation and avoids splitting a broad subject into shallow pages before each narrower answer has enough verified material of its own.
Search vocabulary in four languages
Terminology changes across borders. These are example phrases people use for the same subject in Estonian, Finnish, Russian and English; they are included as a practical vocabulary aid, not as hidden keywords.
| Language | Example phrase |
|---|---|
| Estonian | nõgestõbi põhjused |
| Estonian | külmaallergia nahal |
| Finnish | nokkosihottuma syyt |
| Russian | хроническая крапивница причины |
| English | cold urticaria swimming |
Evidence and provenance
The evidence map below records the primary, official or openly licensed material chosen for this guide. It is deliberately visible so a reader can tell the difference between a rule published by an authority, a measured dataset and an editorial explanation.
Source: international EAACI/GA2LEN/EuroGuiDerm/APAAACI urticaria guideline 2022 (Allergy, open access), UAS7 (published). · checked 2026-09-09
Source names are preserved even where an authority changes its web address. No figure is added to this launch page unless it is already present in the cited source description or can be computed from a named dataset.
Scope and boundaries
/allergy is pollen seasons, the 14 EU food allergens and cross-reactivity; hives is the skin reaction itself, most of which is not allergic at all.
Connected TempoLife guides
The following paths are the intentional hand-offs named in the brief. They keep adjacent subjects separate while making the next useful reference easy to find.
Why it belongs on TempoLife
/allergy, /skin, /firstaid.
Frequently asked questions
What does this guide cover?
This guide covers acute vs chronic spontaneous urticaria, the inducible kinds that matter in a cold country (cold urticaria, cholinergic heat hives, dermographism, pressure, solar, aquagenic), angioedema with and without hives, the ACE-inhibitor kind, hives in children after a virus, and the honest answer to "what am I allergic to" — in chronic hives, usually nothing testable. The management page explains the guideline's stepwise non-sedating antihistamine approach and the UAS7 diary, and Every section names the…
What evidence does it use?
international EAACI/GA2LEN/EuroGuiDerm/APAAACI urticaria guideline 2022 (Allergy, open access), UAS7 (published).
Where does this guide stop?
/allergy is pollen seasons, the 14 EU food allergens and cross-reactivity; hives is the skin reaction itself, most of which is not allergic at all.
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