Posted by SLS on July 2, 2004, at 22:25:53
In reply to Re: Itching while taking Zonegran or tricyclics?, posted by KaraS on July 2, 2004, at 21:03:21
Hi again.
> > Sounds like cholinergic urticaria. Your body produces a histamine response to the heat.> Actually I did read that it is the sweating that your body is reacting to.
I think you might have figured it out. After all of these years, it's nice to have an explanation. I thought that it perhaps had something to do with a noradrenergic phenomenon, but your description matches something I found on the Net.
http://www.emedicine.com/DERM/topic442.htm
Thanks again.
:-)
- Scott
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