Hives guide
This guide is for a typical short-lived pattern of itchy raised welts, not breathing trouble, facial swelling, blistering, severe illness, or a concerning medication reaction.
Start online
A focused online review can help with a straightforward hives pattern when the welts move around or fade within a day and there are no airway, circulation, blistering, mucosal, or severe-illness warning signs.
If treatment is appropriate, your physician can send a non-controlled prescription to your pharmacy and provide portal instructions for the next step.
Quick facts
Common symptoms
May fit online care
Look for another care setting
What to have ready
What happens next
Start the request on the website, answer the fit questions, and choose the response window you want. If the concern still fits this service, a physician reviews it and sends a secure update after sign-in. When appropriate, non-controlled prescriptions can be sent to your pharmacy, and a basic work or school note can be included at physician discretion.
Your physician
Every visit is personally reviewed by Ankur Fadia, MD — board-certified, cardiology-fellowship-trained, and Alpha Omega Alpha. Licensed in Virginia and West Virginia — your care is never handed off.
Sometimes. Typical moving itchy welts without airway symptoms, blistering, severe illness, or a concerning medication reaction may fit a photo-supported review.
Call 911 for lip, tongue, mouth, or throat swelling, trouble breathing, wheezing, fainting, or severe dizziness. Do not wait for an online response.
A painful or fixed spot that lasts longer than a day, bruises, blisters, or leaves sores needs an in-person assessment rather than a simple hives pathway.
Not quite what you have? These are the closest concerns this service covers.