Guess that allergy!

Poor Joshua, he just can't get a break. They say there is one kid in every family that is the "sick" kid. Joshua is ours. He has broke out into serious hives again, I'm almost thinking of taking him to the ER, but I can see that the Benadryl is working. We have a few guesses. One is pancake syrup. I mentioned in an earlier post that Joshua might be allergic to turkey bacon, but we had syrup that same meal. Joshua is now taking Zyrtec, although he's had it for several days now and hasn't had the reaction until now so is it that? Another one is Canada Dry Ginger Ale, the only other thing that he had that was unusual to cause the hives.

So now we are going to stop all three, wait till he clears up and then try again with one of these and wait and see. The only problem with that is that his reactions are more and more severe and I'm afraid of how bad it will be if we try and actually find out the culprit. Will have to call the Dr. on Monday.

Does any one have any guesses?

Sunday Morning 9am

I took Joshua to the ER last night. His hives wouldn't go away with the Benadryl and he spiked a high fever along with difficulty breathing. The ER doctor took a chest x-ray and was afraid he may have pnemonia.

So after three x-rays there is no pnemonia. They gave Joshua a prescription for a steriod. The prognosis is either, a virus that caused the hives, or a virus that caused the fever, and a seperate allergic reation to who knows what.

I was at the ER from 1:20-3:45am. Joshua chatted away the whole time and we are no nearer to finding out what makes him break out. >I am so tired, missed the kids Easter Bunny reactions, and will stay home from church (again) with Joshua due to our lack of sleep last night.

BTW Joshua woke up this morning hive free, fever free, but tired.