Sunday, January 29, 2012

Allergies

Laura has been sick for the past few weeks so she finally started Zithromax to try to get better. The problem is that she is still breastfeeding Chase. We used pumped milk on day 1. She breastfed him on day 2 and he had a minor rash (that looked more like heat rash), but we decided maybe we should try to give him formula since we didn't have enough of a backup supply of milk to last for the entire time of taking the antibiotic. This morning, we gave him a bottle of formula for the first time. He was a little fussy with the formula but finally ended up drinking about 4 oz. He was fussy, but we thought he was just tired, so we put him down for a morning nap. He fell asleep pretty quickly, but he woke up 15 minutes later crying. I went in and he had hives all over his body, a swollen face and his tongue was sticking out. We called Laura's Uncle Danny and he told us to give him some Benedryl, but he didn't seem to get much better so we went to the ER. They gave him a steroid shot and our baby boy was back again. The problem is that we aren't sure which issue caused the reaction so we will be seeing an allergist soon to find out.







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