Hives and thyroid disease

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-16-2004
Hives and thyroid disease
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Tue, 07-27-2004 - 1:40pm
One of the ladies posted about her having a bad case of hives and she was concerned maybe her thyroid had something to do about it. Mary Shoman's newest newsletter has some info on it. Here it is,

http://thyroid.about.com/b/a/099941.htm

July 19, 2004

Hives Linked to Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

Research reported on in the journal Dermatology found that the frequency of thyroid autoantibodies is significantly higher in patients with chronic urticaria (hives) than in healthy controls. In the study, all the patients with thyroid autoantibodies had so-called "normal" test results. Researchers concluded that there is a significant association between chronic urticaria and thyroid autoimmunity, but only the thyroid antibody tests are relevant in patients with chronic urticaria, versus thyroid function tests.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-09-2001
Tue, 07-27-2004 - 3:37pm
Thanks, Lisa! That's great. I haven't read my newsletter yet. Thanks for reminding me. Cathy :)
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Registered: 07-21-2004
Wed, 07-28-2004 - 8:26am
I believe this post was meant for me so I just wanted to say thanks for keeping me in mind!!

Michele