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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cocosilk" data-source="post: 2166826" data-attributes="member: 501623">I was reading recently, after my 3yo and then I(!), broke out in hives, that it is often caused by a virus.  My 3yo indeed had a virus, like a cold / cough /sore throat, and he broke out in hives at different times over a few days - even once when I gave him a little spank on the leg for being naughty, the hives appeared where I had spanked him!  But they came up in different places on different days.  Then a few days later, I had caught the bug and woke up in the middle of the night with my back itching like crazy.  I got up to try and look at it in the mirror and, sure enough, I had hives too.  But only once. We are all allergic to things - have eczema/ dermatitis / asthma, but this did indeed seem to be related to the virus rather than an allergy thing.  So the hives may be related to the flu rather than anything else."Infections can cause hives in some people. In fact, viral infections cause more than 80 percent of all cases of acute hives in children. A variety of viruses can cause hives (even routine cold viruses). The hives seem to appear as the immune system begins to clear the infection, sometimes one week or more after the illness begins. The hives usually persist for one week or two and then disappear." <a href="https://www.uptodate.com/contents/hives-urticaria-beyond-the-basics" target="_blank">https://www.uptodate.com/contents/hives-urticaria-beyond-the-basics</a></blockquote>

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