The hardest part of having red, itchy skin, hives, or swollen spots on your skin is trying to concentrate on making your day as normal as possible while avoiding scratching the itchy parts.
Sometimes you have to concentrate so much on that that you sort of forget whats the reason behind the itching, which would really be the thing you should focus your attention on, so that it wont happen again.
Allergies are most often the cause of skin rashes and such, and some of them are quite common. Read on to find out what they are and what you can do to avoid them.
Diagnosing Skin Allergies
An allergist can test if youre allergic to substances or if your skin reacts to different possible allergens by conducting a skin test. In a multiple-test method, the allergist will prick your skin to introduce various media in microscopic amounts, to see which pricks elicit a reaction from your skin.
The material type that your skin reacts on can be retested using different methods to confirm if the material in question is indeed your allergen. The allergist can also check to see how severe the reaction to your allergen is, and can range from mild to life...