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Hives are pretty easy to identify as there are only a few symptoms that all hives sufferers experience. These hives symptoms include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Raised, flat-topped bumps (AKA welts) on your skin that are smooth to the touch and typically red in color.
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Hives often are incredibly itchy and are usually accompanied by a burning or stinging sensation.
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Hives can be as small as a pencil eraser or as large as a dinner plate.
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Hives can grow in size, spread or even join together to make large areas of itchy, swollen red skin.
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Hives usually appears first on the covered areas of your skin, such as your trunk and upper parts of your arms and legs. However, they can also appear anywhere on your body, including your hands, feet, chest, face, ears, etc.
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Hives can change location, shape, disappear and then come back in a few minutes or hours.
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Hives typically come very quickly and seem to appear out of nowhere.
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Hives can be accompanied by severe swelling under the skin, known as angioedema.
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What Should I Do About My Hives?
If you find that you are experiencing any of these hives symptoms, please see our hives rash FAQs and hives treatment pages.
Keep in mind that these hives symptoms do not always appear in all hives outbreaks. You may have hives and only have itching with skin colored welts, while someone else may have bright red colored welts that cover large areas and burn intensely. No two cases of hives are the same from one person to the next, nor are the causes of hives the same for every person. That's why its not uncommon that hives symptoms will vary from person to person and from case to case. You may not have the same physical symptoms as your cousin, or best friend.
If you find that at any time your hives rash is causing your breathing to become labored and difficult, you should seek immediate emergency treatment at your nearest emergency room.
In addition, if you can identify what your triggers are, then you can avoid experiencing these hives symptoms in the future. Only 17% of hives rash suffers are ever able to identify their triggers though (and that is with extensive lab testing), so don't beat yourself up if you never do find your trigger and be sure you know how to treat hives when an outbreak does occur.