Medical Matters: Exciting new trials underway to better treat urticaria

This evening on Medical Matters we talk about urticaria (ur-tih-KAR-e-uh), also known as HIVES. Urticaria is a skin reaction that causes itchy welts. Hives usually go away without treatment, but antihistamine medication is often helpful in improving symptoms and sometimes the cause of chronic hives isn't clear. Chronic hives are welts that last for more than six weeks and return often over months or years. Prof. Jonny Peter, Head of the Division of Allergology and Clinical Immunology at Groote Schuur and the UCT Lung Institute, joins us to help us understand this disease a little bit more better.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.