Chances are if you have a child with severe allergies, you have had the "mystery reaction." Our home is no different.
Yesterday morning when I walked into Tyler's room, it appeared that he had a black eye. When I turned the lights on, his entire left eye was swollen. The eyelid was so swollen it was half shut. The white of his eye was very blood shot. The area below the eye was purple. I was alarmed but thought it was a bad case of pink eye. (Man, I can be clueless sometimes!)
I rushed him the to the doctor and it was actually an allergic reaction. To what? I have no idea! His meal the night before (meatloaf and baked potatoes) was made entirely from scratch by me.
After dinner, he played outside with his brother and dad. My guess is that one of the plants in our backyard (or possibly even the grass) caused the reaction. What is a little perplexing is the fact that he had a bath before bed.
This is the most dramatic "mystery reaction" we have had to date. I'm not going to forbid him to play outside. That would be cruel. But, I will play close attention to what he comes into contact with.
What is your most recent "mystery reaction?"
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That can be very scary to be surprised by. My daughter had a similar "eye closing" reaction three years ago. That was before her PA was confirmed and we still had peanut butter in the house (totally unaware of the dangers of cross contimation and having no clue that she had a severe contact allergy). She must have gotten some residue on her hand and rubbed her eye at some point. It scared me to death to see it! The Dr. at the time wanted to pass it off as a reaction to seasonal allergies (which she does have), but I knew it wasn't related to that.
Right now we are dealing with strange croupy cough sounds in the middle of the night (with no other related sickness signs or symptoms). It appears allergy related, and maybe they are precusors to asthma for our daughter? We are still trying to figure out what the connection is that brings it on.
Just last Wednesday at church Will started having an asthma reaction to something in his class. He has never had a problem before, but I think with his new diagnosis of asthma we may see more of those crop up. He was eating something that was safe. He was playing in a room that was safe. I think the only wild card for us is that we don't know what everyone has eaten before they came to church and it could have been on them. On top of it he now has a dog and cat allergy, so maybe someone's clothes had too much dander on them...not sure. In any case, some benedryl and his emergency inhaler fixed him up. But indeed, the most mysterious of our reactions.
My 3 year old PA son had a mystery reaction a few weeks ago. His left eye was red and swollen and itchy, and that side of his face was red and blotchy. I knew he was reacting to something but wasn't sure what. Later, I found a raw egg mess in the fridge. Our allergist said the tests for egg allergy were unreliable and to just assume he was allergic to raw egg. We now keep the eggs out of his reach!
Caron
Is it possible that it was a spider or mosquito bite rather than some kind of food ingestion? My son had the same thing happen to him and I flew to the doctor in the morning, my paed is amazing and knows that I only come when I NEED to be there...He told me that the culprit was most likely a spider or a mosquito since I was obessively careful at the time...I have since become a little less obsessive but still very diligent than I was...
Kate - how old is your daughter? Our little girl developed the same type of cough shortly after her tonsils were removed. We found out that her enlarged tonsils were actually masking reflux!
stop vaccinating your kids, stupid, you are KILLING them. People with perfect genes can handle it most of the time, people like your kids cant. Everyone is running around wondering why autism, hayfever, celiac, chrons, celiac is exploding among kids, but few have stopped listening to the lies fed to them by the usual sources and started to seek out the truth. There is a commonality among almost all childhood diseases. Just look at the vaccine schedules for kids nowadays. Anyway, here's a start
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1680880309130302045
Educate yourself, do it for your family and save yourself the grief down the road.
werd
I just wanted to mention the strange croup cough in the middle of teh night thing.. My daughter who has mild persistent asthma and seasonal allergies started to have a croup cough in the middle of the night and couldn't breath. The nebulizer helped. No one knows why she had those episodes but pretty much everyone agreed that it wasn't asthma... more like something related to her constant post nasal drip or acid reflux (which is all speculation because there is no test for silent acid reflux) Anyway, I put a humidifier in the room and it hasn't happened since. I only took the humidifier out when it started to warm up and get humid.
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