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With prolonged, repeated exposure to the insect, a wheal develops immediately after the bite and an itchy bump forms 24 hours later.
By adulthood or the teenage years, only a wheal may form with the subsequent itchy bump.
Spiders may produce a reddened wheal and an ulcer.
My pony keeps developing the odd wheal on his neck and recently He had a swelling on his chest.
There is the same sharp, tingling sensation and a similar white wheal or blotch, caused by the muscular spasm of the corium, a layer of the skin Urticaria may be either acute or chronic.— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand

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