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How To Cure A Rash That Is Not Cured By Intake Of Histamine Tablets?
Hi I am 49 year old female and have had this rash which started with a small bump like an insect bite and started to itch and the more I scratch the worse it gets, am currently taking anti histamine tablets at night and it hasn't helped and it still is itchy and abit inflamed. This all started around the 12th December 2013 and is still itchy. Can you help?
Mon, 24 Feb 2014
Hi. Thanks for posting your concern at HCM
I would keep a possibility of papular urticaria, which is a sort of hypersensitivity to insect bite.
Apart from the oral antihistamines e.g OTC cetrizine or loratadine, which you can take once or twice daily; you also need to apply a topical steroid+antibiotic combination cream (e.g mometasone+fusidic acid cream) twice daily for 2 weeks
regards
take care
I would keep a possibility of papular urticaria, which is a sort of hypersensitivity to insect bite.
Apart from the oral antihistamines e.g OTC cetrizine or loratadine, which you can take once or twice daily; you also need to apply a topical steroid+antibiotic combination cream (e.g mometasone+fusidic acid cream) twice daily for 2 weeks
regards
take care
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