Yesterday during church, a fellow mom motioned for me to come out into the hall. My heart skipped a beat because I thought something must have happened to Tyler. My face must have revealed my fear because as soon as I got out, she said, "Everything is fine."
I said, "Good, I thought it was an allergic reaction."
But, in fact, it was an allergic reaction. But it was her son, not mine.
She explained her child was having some sort of a reaction and she wanted to know if I had any Benadryl. Since I leave some with Tyler's Epi pens and I always have some in my purse, I told her I did. Since I didn't have my purse with me, I rushed to the nursery and grabbed Benadryl and Epi Pens.
When I saw her son his eyes were starting to swell shut and he had hives popping up all over his face. I quickly gave him 2 Benadryl packs (equal to 2 teaspoons - he weighs 90 lbs).
I asked the child if he was having trouble breathing or if his throat was sore. He said it was not. Still, I stayed with him and the others with him with Tyler's Epi Pens in hand in case the situation got worse.
Within 5 minutes of giving him the Benadryl, the hives started clearing up and his eyes started to look better.
In the end, no one has any idea what caused the reaction. He normally has mild allergies. He had not eaten anything recently. The two things we have possibly narrowed it down to is new cleaners the church is using (and has been for a couple of months) or some new inflatable globes the children were playing with.
Later in the day, I found it so interesting how I have gone from being a girl that has very, very mild airborne allergies and knew nothing of food allergies up until a few years ago to now being the person that is pulled out the church service when someone is having an allergic reaction.
I'm certainly no expert but I am known to be pretty allergy aware at our church. After all, I am the reason the church is now peanut free!
Its nice to know that Tyler's allergy has taught me enough to help others, both at church and the readers of this blog...
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I'm so glad for the other mom that you were there to help. How scary! I've had the nurse at our former school call me with a general allergy question as well. My son was one of the first food allergy kids at the school so we kind of became the "experts". I hope they figure out what caused the reaction!
You GO GIRL!!! :-) Karen in NC
I am so glad you are there to help, what a good story (not good about the reaction of course.) and I know, one more person (the child's mom) has learned the importance of dealing with any allergy.
I hope they find out the cause of that reaction, poor kid, the mysterious reaction is the worst.
Well done to you!
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