Well for those of you living in the states, I hope your Memorial Day
weekend went better than ours!
My son had an ear infection last week and we were treating it with
Amoxicyllin (sp?). He's had the antibiotic 2 times previously. He was
on it for about 6 days, then friday morning when I went to change him
out of his jammies, he's covered in red splotches and some bumps as
well in the splotches.
We take him to the ped and they say its most likely a reaction to the
Amoxicyllin. We say he was on it before but the ped says that he can
just start having an allergic reaction to it as he grows.
So the ped checks his ears, and the ear we were treating is fine now,
but now his other ear & tube are clogged and we need to start treating
that for infection. So she takes him off the Amoxi and puts him on
Prelone I believe....
Ped says to give him benadryl every 6 hours to help reduce the hives.
So we head out of town to visit my folks as planned, thinking
everything will be fine. The next morning he's got a whole lot more of
them, and his eyes are puffy, like he was in a boxing match. Red
splotches all over his face.
We take him to the hospital and they pretty much come to the same
conclusion that it's an allergic reaction. They give him a breathing
treatment and put him on a steroid (forget the name off hand) for 3
days, and once we started giving him that it immediately started to
reduce the hives.
They said the hives can last up to 72 hours. Well today I'm glad to
say they are all gone and he's doing much better.
Don't really know if it was the Amoxicyllin.. but I would have to
assume so.
Anyone else ever experience this?
I wish our Ped would have prescribed the steroid first, but I guess
that's a last ditch alternative.
But our DS was a trooper. Though the benadryl kept him sleepy a lot
during the weekend he never had a fever and was happy and playful.
Paul
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