I'm writing this to bring awareness to what we went through just a few weeks ago, our first trip to the emergency room. It was absolutely one of the scariest things we've been through, which I know it won't be the last but for it being the first time it was severely nerve wrecking.
It all started when my husband came home on a Friday and said he wasn't feeling great. So we agreed he'd go to urgent care the next morning just to get some antibiotics, well the doctor wanted to be absolutely sure what he had so he ran some tests. It came back that he ended up with the Flu, GREATTTT. When he came home we did everything we could to keep our little guy away from his dad, needless to say it was hard. My husband wore a mask 24-7 and we Lysoled EVERYTHING.
Well that was Saturday, so the next day everything was going okay until my son was sitting at our dinner table and I noticed he was itching more than normal. I looked at his body and there wasn't anything crazy that stood out to me, just a little red from scratching. THEN maybe 10 minutes later he was covered in these swollen red blotches. He kept saying "mommy, itchy hurt" so I knew itching was starting to bother him. Now the first thing my husband and I did was go through and thought about if he ate anything new (my son has a very picky diet of chicken nuggets and waffles). We couldn't think of anything different.
So I called his doctor and explained what was going on, he has no fever at all through this whole thing. She told him to give him 2.5 mL of Benadryl, now my son has had Benadryl before so I knew that wasn't going to bother him. That's exactly what my husband and I did, along with putting him in a bath. The first time it helped for a little while but then the blotches came back with vengeance. They were ALL over his body, so I gave him more Benadryl but this time was for bed. Let's just say that night wasn't great. The next morning physically took him to the doctor for her to look at him. The first thing she did was look in his throat, she said the reaction wasn't effecting his throat so he's just having a reaction to something. She gave us something a little stronger than Benadryl to try. Which is did work better than the Benadryl but it wasn't making his itching stop completely.
The next morning at 4 am, I'm sitting in bed crying with my son because the itching is getting worse (our son was literally trying to tear his skin off) and I feel helpless. Finally my husband looks at me and says "that's it we're going to the effing hospital". (I hate hospitals, so I do everything in my power not to go) I agreed, at this point I'd do anything to make my boy feel better. Now, we had a very tired and cranky 3 year old in this emergency room so you can only imagine the screams and crying he was doing but I have to say the doctor and nurses were amazing with our little guy. He's very weary about random people coming near him so to have these nurses and doctors look at him was a chore but like I said they were amazing.
The hospital also gave Jay some Benadryl BUT they gave him 5 mL and guess what? It worked (insert facepalm here). To say I was relieved and embarrassed all at the same time was an understatement. Pretty much we were under medicating him, which is why none of the medication was working. We went through anything that he could've been allergic to and went through all the events with the doctor. He looked at us and said it's the Lysol. I told him that's impossible, we've used Lysol before. He said it's because of the amount we used, which when we found out my husband had the flu we did go a bit crazy with it to keep my son from getting sick.
To say this was the scariest time we've had so far is an understatement. Now I know itching and blotchy skin isn't horrible, but for us it was more of the not knowing where he was getting the itching from was the worst. It's crazy to look back on this now because like I said before we've used Lysol before and he never had a reaction. I'm writing this to hopefully help a parent if they go through the same thing with a certain chemical they think is safe.
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