It itches. Will rubbing it make it go away faster?

[crystalfresh]

I had allergy testing yesterday. They injected me intradermal with a histamine control.

Alcohol 91%
Cortisone cream
Benadryl 2% cream
HOT water
HOT water with salt
Ice
Clarinex antihistamine

Benadryl cream stopped all the other spots from itching except the histamine control.

If I started rubbing it I might get my body to absorb the histamine faster? Another words can I itch it?

[crystalfresh]

Just want to reference again, rubbing an allergy in will make it absorb faster, so if you are feeling a reaction to something it will during that time make it much worst. This was something I would only do in this specific case. I don't recommend that anyone else try what I did.

[crystalfresh]

My doctor injected me with histamine to produce an allergic response for a positive negative reference to compare to other possible allergies during testing. Since it is actual histamine I of course an feeling the reaction since my body doesn't need to produce histamine it was injected under my skin as a little bubble of liquid. So until my body can absorb it its going to stay red and itchy. Just trying to find ways to make it absorb faster to go away. I hate this part of the test. When they give me something I am allergic to I swell up and produce histamine (the same stuff they injected me with) but after I can put cream on my arm to stop the production of histamine. So no more itching because histamine is halted. But I can't turn this one off since it is not producing histamine it already is histamine for the purpose of control testing. Benadryl helps but not even Benadryl is stopping the redness and itching. :(

So I exposed it to hot hot hot water and rubbed it. It got more itchy and spread out and around. But the good part is my body is absorbing it with the rubbing with heat -vs- just heat. So it itches less over all. I've been working on it all day and have it almost gone now. So this worked.

I also had bad asthma today after I started heating and rubbing it, not sure if that is related. I think it was. So I would not recommend anyone who has allergic asthma to rub their allergy in to their skin to make it go away faster. But if you don't have reactions it is working for me. :) The last time they did this and I didn't rub it the itch and redness lasted 2 weeks. :(

[margypops]

Well I dont know if you are talking about hives but none of those things work I am trying everything, dont let them give you prednisone you will be sorry , even antihistimines dont work,I have found a cold compress soothing.

[crystalfresh]

I got frustrated because it kept itching. There was a bubble of histamine under my skin from the injection. I took an oral antihistamine, waited 20 minutes, then took a towel with very hot water and started applying pressure and rubbing it to try and spread out the liquid injected under my skin. I did this for about 3 minutes. Then I only kept hot water on it for another minute.

The area is getting more red now after about 15 minutes. But the bubble is a little more flat. So I moved some of the liquid. A few minutes ago the itching was almost gone. It's nice and red but not itching. :) I'll keep in the antihistamine for a few days. Finally got some relief. And I will keep rubbing it with a hot wet towel every few hours until flat.

It seems that the hot water was not working with out rubbing it. BTY I'd not have done this with out taking antihistamine first. ;) So I'm all good now. Thanks.

[crystalfresh]

What if I rub it with really hot water. Will that make it absorb faster and go away sooner? I am feeling fine otherwise. Just this one red spot. Thank you.

[crystalfresh]

I have already tried all the above and the histamine control still itches. Nothing but cold stops the itch.