And hives, H-I-V-E-S, are like little bumps, red bumps on your skin.

荨麻疹，H-I-V-E-S，是皮肤出现的小红疙瘩。

And then I get hives on my body, which are itchy red bumps.

然后我起了荨麻疹，那些是发痒的红肿疙瘩。

But for some people, sunlight means hives or itchy rashes.

但对于某些人来说，阳光意味着会出现荨麻疹或瘙痒性皮疹。

I looked at my face in the iPhone camera and I was covered in hives.

我对着iPhone摄像头照了照自己的脸，发现满脸都是荨麻疹。

A lot of hives, lip swelling, which was terrifying.

许多荨麻疹，嘴唇肿胀，那真是吓人。

It's not a moral thing. I get hives.

这跟信仰关系 我会起荨麻疹的。

Unfortunately, this is reality for people with an extremely rare allergy to water called aquagenic urticaria.

不幸的是，对于水源性荨麻疹这种极为罕见的水过敏症患者来说，这是现实。

So I was breaking out in hives.

所以我起了荨麻疹。

About five years ago, Heller-Greenman started experiencing terrible, itchy hives on her back, middle and legs in the middle of the night.

大约五年前，海勒-格林曼开始发现自己的背部、体中部和双腿在半夜出现可怕的发痒的荨麻疹。

Well, not only did she start to sneeze, but she started to get hives on her arm.

哎呀，她不仅开始打喷，手还起了荨麻疹。

Typically it's water-on-skin contact that causes the hives to erupt, but some people can't even drink it.

通常情况下，皮肤接触水会导致荨麻疹爆发，但有些人甚至不能喝它。

Like I just had hives on my hands and my feet, and like all over my torso.

艾米：像我的手和脚以及整个躯干都长了荨麻疹一样。

If you have a condition called solar urticaria, big, itchy welts develop within minutes of sun exposure.

如果你患有日光性荨麻疹，皮肤会在晒太阳几分钟后出现大面积的瘙痒肿块。

This leads to reactions throughout the body, from hives on the skin, to stomach pain and throat swelling.

这会导致全反应，从皮肤的荨麻疹，到腹痛和喉咙肿胀。

We're talking things like swelling, fevers, and hives.

我们谈论的是肿胀、发烧和荨麻疹等问题。

I start to get hives even repeating that, but that's what we've been taught, that purpose and passion are everything.

我开始得荨麻疹， 甚至重复这句话， 但这是我们被教导的，目标和热情是一切。

Of all the people who get hives, only about half a percent of them do because of the sun.

在所有长荨麻疹的人中，只有大约半百分之一是因为太阳引起的。

So a month before the games, I was hospitalized and hungry and filled with steroids to get the hives to drop.

所以在比赛前一个月，我住院了，饿得很，还打了类固醇来让荨麻疹消退。

These hives die down within a day, but as you can imagine, this disease seriously puts a damper on going outdoors.

这些荨麻疹在一两天内会消退，但你可以想象，这种疾病严重阻碍了外出活动。

In solar urticaria, that same process seems to happen, but the molecule that’s causing the immune system freakout is a mystery.

在日光性荨麻疹中，同样的过程似乎也会发生，但引发免疫系统异常反应的分子仍然是个谜。