Please Help!!! :( (Photos) *FINAL Update*
My oldest has developed an allergic reaction to something. It is contagious, as I now have it. She is going on day 7 of having it. I am on day 3. The doctor only gave her steroids and she took her last dose of it today. It helped quite a bit with her swelling and the redness. Now that she has no more medication, it's getting bad and swelling up again. I don't know what to do! Has anyone dealt with anything like this before??
This is what she is supposed to look like:
This is what she looked like on day 2, we rushed to the ER upon her waking me "Mommy, what happened to my face?":
This was taken 30 minutes after her first dose of steroids:
Thia is her butt, same day (day 3):
This is her butt today:
I don't know where to go from here. The rash is raised and welted. Visits to the doctor are getting really expensive!!
She is so itchy and the only thing that helped it was the steroids. She takes Benedryl at night and is still severely itchy! I have a one the size of a dime on my left breast and I'm terrified that my baby will get it so I keep a band-aid on it. I have one on my leg that is raised and orange in color. It's about 7 inches long and 1 inch wide. It has "branches" where it is spreading. The doctors ruled out poison ivy/oak, chicken pox, shingles, chiggers, bed bugs, scabies and ring worm. We thought it was a reaction to a box elder bug bite, but I didn't get bit by one. HELP!!
This is what she is supposed to look like:
This is what she looked like on day 2, we rushed to the ER upon her waking me "Mommy, what happened to my face?":
This was taken 30 minutes after her first dose of steroids:
Thia is her butt, same day (day 3):
This is her butt today:
I don't know where to go from here. The rash is raised and welted. Visits to the doctor are getting really expensive!!
She is so itchy and the only thing that helped it was the steroids. She takes Benedryl at night and is still severely itchy! I have a one the size of a dime on my left breast and I'm terrified that my baby will get it so I keep a band-aid on it. I have one on my leg that is raised and orange in color. It's about 7 inches long and 1 inch wide. It has "branches" where it is spreading. The doctors ruled out poison ivy/oak, chicken pox, shingles, chiggers, bed bugs, scabies and ring worm. We thought it was a reaction to a box elder bug bite, but I didn't get bit by one. HELP!!
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@bexiewexie Thanks hun!
@mommyof3girls We live in the city, she hadn't been anywhere else. They told me poison ivy/oak works quickly. I should have mentioned that this started out as two bites that looked similar to mosquito bites, on her face. That was day 1. That's why we originally thought it was from the box elder bugs that she collected. Now I'm not so sure.
@starrxoxo9 Thanks! Made her a dermatologist appointment for tomorrow. They're gonna take swabs/samples of it for testing. The answer feels a little closer!
@Mama_Kat I will for sure.
@Mama_Kat What did she end up having?? That sounds scary as heck!!!
@emy I did! Day 2, 3, and 4 were spent at the ER. Worthless!