Aquagenic urticaria

Aquagenic urticaria and the story of King DIAS

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 story of King DIAS

In one of Greek myths: King Midas asks God DAONYSUS, the god of wine and lust, asks him that anything that touches turn into gold, and indeed God DAONYSUS responds to the desire of Midas and gives him the ability to turn things into gold by touching them, King Midas was very happy, he was touching The stone turns into gold, and touches the trees and roses, and they turn into gold.
But he had a problem. When he wanted to eat, he would eat it, so it would become gold, as well as when he wanted to drink. Therefore, he would not be able to eat and drink.
Imagine, my dear friend, a man with the ability to turn things into gold and not be able to drink even a drop of water.

The topic became worse day after day until he touched his daughter and turned into a golden statue, here Midas began to realize the curse of the ability he possessed.
So he went to DAONYSUS and began asking him to rid him of that ability, and indeed DAONYSUS responds to the request of Midas and advises him to dip into the Pactolus River and told him that after he dives into the river the curse will be gone, as you expected my dear reader or did not expect according to your ability to expect
Midas Once he got down to the river, the whole river turned into gold.
This was a Greek mythological story as a prelude to our article today

Aquagenic urticaria 

There is some information that the media does not know or hide from us, such as there are 32 people on the planet suffering almost the same hardships as Midas.
In the year 2016, BBC published an article about a woman who is allergic to water named Rachel Prince, who is vulnerability to something that covers almost 70% of the area of the planet in which we live. The boldness in contact with water begins with swelling and redness. Even when you want to drink, the same symptoms appear on her face and body.

It is possible to imagine the extent of the suffering she is exposed to in the event of rain or when she cries and tears start to come out of her eyes, meaning that when she feels pain and harm she will not be able to cry.
This condition is very rare and is known as Aquagenic urticaria, in which the patient is sensitive to water, regardless of its temperature and whatever its purity.

Here is a question that may arise in our mind if the human body was originally made up of 60% water, so why do they develop this sensitivity only when they touch it.
We can say that this sensitivity is stimulated by external exposure only to water, which means that if we take a syringe with water and inject it into it, the patient suffers from water allergy, so no symptoms will appear.
This is a very important and dangerous characteristic, and because of it, we have become suspicious that the cause of allergies is not water itself, but rather that there may be substance on the skin, meaning when that substance is exposed to water dissolving and entering the body, but this theory is not certain.
There is a question, how can people with AV live despite all these difficulties such as rain, sweat and cry ....?
In fact, they face many difficulties, for example they reduce the number of showers as much as possible and drink milk instead of water and do not leave the house when it rains and take ANTI-HISTAMINE in order to reduce the effect of histamine and thus reduce symptoms of allergy.
But the major problem facing people with this allergy is that they are very few, almost one person in every 230 million people, and this makes us unable to do enough experiments on the drugs available to reach the optimal treatment for this allergy. Even if there is a treatment, there is no drug company that can make a treatment for 32 people

Other rare urticaria

In fact, water sensitivity is not the only allergic, there are other rare allergies such as SOLAR URTICARIA sun allergy and HEAT URTICARIA hypersensitivity and PHYSICAL EXERCiSE physical exercise sensitivity and there are people who are allergic to NICKEL SULPHATE who make coins if these people cannot touch the money