Hives

Spencer has always had sensitive skin and really bad allergies. The pollen this season has been out of control but he’s actually been handling it well…until last week! He came home from school saying he was itching all over. He took off his shirt and he was covered in hives!

I gave him some Benadryl while waiting for the doctor to call me back. He said Benadryl is fine but better to just rotate other allergy meds – Claritin, allegra, zyrtec, etc – twice a day. I was hoping he’d be better by the next day but this is what he looked like the next morning…

Poor buddy! He was COVERED. His entire legs were basically one giant hive. I took him up to the doctor and she said it was just allergies and the hives are worse when your body gets warm – which makes sense since he had been snuggled under his covers all night. We continued the twice a day antihistamine and also added in a pepcid because that also blocks histamine. By the next day he was much better and back to school!

Poor Spencey had hives when he was a baby too. It was scary then and scary now! We need to get back going on allergy shots I guess. Go away pollen!