Hi all:
First I am home from school and on the board due to snow here in KCI am really upset my calss was cancelled as you can see.
Last night my daughter called, she had been at her old HS coaches house visiting he and his wife. My daughter went to the bathroom leaving Makayla with them and his wife gave her choclate ice cream. Mak has only had breast milk and a few baby foods so far, she started vomiting and developed a rash on her face and she was coughing.
FOR all of you these are signs of an anaphylactic reaction. I am sharing this first because I was up all night worried sick and two I have had two of these and most people do not realize the signs which can be deadly.
My daughter did not have any Benadryl on hand which is a no no for having children in your home, Benadryl can slow the reaction until you can get to a hospital. For Mak it could have actually stopped it because her was not as severe as it could be. She wanted me to listen to Mak I could her her wheezy gasping which Melanie thought was a cough it was a cough but do to her throat swelling. She went to the hospital and they gave her the Benadryl first and something else( I wasn't there so not sure) and monitered her for over an hour.
My reaction was much more severe I have asthma and I had a Doctor prescribe an Naproxsyn for an injury, high doses of an analgesic for an asthmatic can be deadly. I had a runny nose, saliva streaming out of my mouth my face was flushed and my throat swelling it was not a pretty sight, I am sharing this also because even the paramedics didn't seem worried until my neighbor an Rn for over 20 years came over and yelled "She's having an anaphylactic reaction" they hauled me into the ambulance and when we were two blocks from here my blood pressure plummeted, scary but I survived.
Just know the symptoms don't try to second guess and wait. Call 911 if you even think it could be it could save a life.
Mak is fine todayHer Nana and Grampy(myself and Thunder Rider) are a lil more silver haired than last night LOL Just be careful what you fee to lil one's and if you have asthma analgesics can be deadly.
Edited by - SheilaM on 22 January 2003 14:44:41