I'm pretty sure I've said before that we know Westin is allergic to Dairy. We only tried a few times but every time his reaction would get worse. Only hives but they seemed to bother him more and more.
The first beach day in San Diego Matt went home to work for the day and come back the next (of course he was gone for a scary time). My family had just headed back to the beach from lunch and I planned to put Westin to sleep in a pack 'n' play. Normally an easy thing, you give him his blanket and a pacifier and he is good to go. NOT THIS TIME. He was very uncomfortable and unhappy and so was I. I got more and more frustrated. He wouldn't sleep, he wouldn't play, and he wouldn't stay in my arms. I had enough and walked back to the condo. Some how I noticed he had some hives on his stomach. I pull his shirt and saw hives all over his body. Not on his face, arms or legs but mostly his belly, chest, back and diaper area. I first though he had a reaction to sunblock. Then I realized it was everywhere but the sunblock area. ( This is getting really long) He was screaming and I was bawling and my Mom was trying to do whatever. I finally gave him benedryl and rubbed cortizone cream on him. It started to help after about 10 mins.
This picture is from after everything calmed down. and it looks much better then it had.
I took him for a walk to fall asleep and then he slept for 2.5 hours and woke up looking like this. It looked like he had been scared but it went away by that night.
We don't know what caused it and never will but I hope it never happens again. It was too sad to see my baby in such pain and I couldn't help him. Worse then watching shots.
The next week he had his one year check up and we were able to get the doctor to draw bloood and do an allergy test. The results came in with him being highly allergic to egg whites, dairy and peanuts. He will most likely grow out of the dairy and egg whites but not the peanuts. We now carry around benedryl and an EPI pen(very very scary thought). We haven't had any real issues since but we have been so careful.
8 comments:
SO SO SO SO SAD AND SCARY!!! Those pictures break my heart. Oh, I am so sorry you had to go through that. Give that little guy a squeeze from me.
poor baby! :o(
Glad everything is okay now!
My goodness. I hope things continue to stay good!
Poor thing!!! So sad!!!
oh man! That is so sad. Poor guy.
I don't know why, but I think the second picture of him is so cute. Something about the way he is looking over his shoulder.
Aww LIttle man. I'm sure you will handle things really well if anything scary happens. you are a smart mom!
Oh my gosh! That's awful, I'm so sorry you both had to go through that. Man! Glad the doctor did that test. I hope this never happens again!
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