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Shampoo Giving Me Hives?

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Chrisser
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I've checked just about all of my bathroom products, and my shampoo does contain gluten. Now I thought it was only a problem if I got it in my mouth, but I read on another thread that someone got an itchy scalp from their gluten-containing shampoo. I started getting hives a little over a week ago out of nowhere. I thought it may have been linked to the Aciphex I started taking, but they haven't gone away since I stopped it. I've been gluten-free for almost 6 weeks now. Is it possible that it's the shampoo?? The hives started on my legs and have gradually spread (they're not continuous though - always go away within 30 min to an hour). I haven't eaten anything different or really done anything else differently in my life. I went to the doctor today, he couldn't figure out a cause, said it was something internal, and handed me a prescription for Allegra in addition to taking benadryl at night. Ugh!

*scratch*

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I have that reaction to both eating wheat and using hair products with gluten. I guess I developed an allergy. Like you, it would come and go, get really bad, and then usually leave in an hour. Benadryl usually kept it away.

I had 3 months of rashes while doing my gluten challenge <_<

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I had 2 different rashes. One is the rash another is red splotches that went away after a while(30 min)-I think the culprit is glutten and the sodium laurel sulfates. I quit using the lavendar spray I put on my pillow, as the rash is gone except for the back-around my nape of neck -if that doesn't do it, I'll try switching pillows. I think the blotches were from the sodium laurel sulfates. <_<

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darlindeb25
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I get hives from gluten containing shampoo too.

Guest Viola
Guest Viola
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I happen to be allergic to my hair dresser's shampoo, so we checked, and it DOESN'T contain any gluten in the ingredients. Sometimes, it's simply an allergy with nothing to do with Celiac. Although I know we automatically blame gluten at times. Some hair spray (no gluten) will also give me hives.

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Thanks for the responses everyone, though I don't think it was the shampoo. I had just noticed one night that after I had showered for the day that the hives appeared without having any before then during the day. But I haven't had any for a couple of days now, so I'm thinking it was just something in my system. Still really strange though. My body is so out of whack since going gluten-free.

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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Thanks for the responses everyone, though I don't think it was the shampoo. I had just noticed one night that after I had showered for the day that the hives appeared without having any before then during the day. But I haven't had any for a couple of days now, so I'm thinking it was just something in my system. Still really strange though. My body is so out of whack since going gluten-free.

Perhaps the warm water of the shower brings them out--and you're right that it's something else going on. Just a thought.

I used to get itching with no visable rash or hives before I was diagnosed and even for the first few months gluten-free. It would frequently be worse after a shower.

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One of my colleagues gets hives from a certain brand of hair coloring.

Guest alex j
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I have had hives that came and went for a week due to a virus. So that's another possibility.

Another time I got those kin dof hives that came and went for a few days, and it turned out there were fleas in the new house we had just moved into and I'm allergic to them. There were hardly any fleas either, because the whole house had been refinished, floors and all, just before we moved in. No-one else even got bitten, as far as we could tell, and I was covered in hives. Finally twigged when we saw one after a week. Hopefully that's not your problem.

Alex

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Suzie-GFfamily
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I've just had some sort of skin reaction too. It started 2 months after I went gluten-free. I think it may be hives, but I'm not sure and the family doctor couldn't tell what it was either. I had a rash on one shoulder, and another patch on the opposite shoulder blade and then a few spots on my arms and the upper part of my legs. The spots on my arms and legs were in a line. The ones on my shoulder and my back were more numerous and just in a patch.

The rash was pretty itchy for the first couple of days and then I've been getting the occasional new "spot" developing now and then. It's itchy when it comes out and then a few days later it feels OK. I haven't had any new spots since last weekend- which was about 10 days after it all started.

I haven't been able to determine any cause. Let us know if you figure out what is going on with you.

Suzie

Ursa Major Collaborator
Ursa Major
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I find that the high chlorine content in our water tends to give me eczema and hives. Also, it could be something in your soap, something you ate other than gluten................unfortunately, the possibilities are pretty endless.

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Thanks guys. Unfortunately I have no idea what it was. I haven't gotten any in, I guess, two days now. Not even after a shower. It must have been some sort of virus or something. I haven't been glutened, as I haven't eaten anything out of the norm. I never even filled the Rx my doctor gave me, nor have I taken Benadryl. I guess it will just remain a mystery. :rolleyes:

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