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Hives, also known as urticaria, are raised, itchy welts on your skin that occur due to an allergen. The reaction is ...

You cannot get Lyme disease if you come into contact with someone’s sneeze, cough, or blood. Learn when it is contagious and ...

When your pet heads outside, they can come into contact with some pesky pests. Here are the most common ones to look out for ...

The Lone Star tick is responsible for most cases of alpha-gal syndrome, a red meat allergy that's appearing more and more in Kansas ...

Baby poop can vary greatly. However, a milk allergy or lactose intolerance may cause poop to be more watery and frequent than usual. Cow’s milk allergy is one of the most common food allergies ...

A WOMAN was left fighting for her life and had to have her fingers and toes amputated after a bug bite led to her organs shutting down. Cathrine Abbott-Coetzee woke up one morning in December 2013 ...

Except when those come in the form of insect bite marks or, even worse, a mosquito-borne disease. Having experienced the former on almost every holiday to date and the latter (alongside an ...

The very best way to relieve the pain of an insect bite, however, is to prevent them from occurring in the first place. Provided you don’t have any allergies to the ingredients in some chemical ...

It is an allergy that strikes only four out of every ... than a fortnight after she went into hospital to have her first baby induced. She was admitted to Poole Hospital in Dorset on the night ...

Most insect stings cause only minor discomfort. Stings can happen anywhere on the body and can be painful. Yellow jackets cause the most allergic reactions in the U.S. Stings from these insects cause ...

For example, we know if you’re exposed to allergens very early on in life, as a baby, you’re much more likely to be protected from developing allergies later on,” he said. “There’s also ...