Cold allergy: ice cube test shows whether you are affected

Created: 09/22/2022, 17:00

By: Natalie Hull Drawbar

In addition to low weather temperatures, even cold water and food can trigger severe symptoms.

How the allergy is recognized and what is behind it.

Some people may not yet know that they are affected.

Because this allergy can occur suddenly and spontaneously, but in a few sufferers it is congenital due to a genetic defect.

Either way, a so-called cold allergy is not to be trifled with.

The disease, called physical cold urticaria, can even be dangerous in severe cases.

24vita.de knows what cold allergy is all about and how it can be diagnosed with an ice cube test.

Drinking drinks with ice cubes can also cause symptoms in people with a cold allergy.

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Women suffer from cold urticaria about twice as often as men.

It is not uncommon for those affected to describe, after consuming cold drinks or food, that the throat was so swollen that there was a risk of shortness of breath and suffocation.

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