It started out just like any other cold...runny nose, cough, low grade fever 101.8. By the second night around 5pm fever is 104.0 so we give Tylenol. By 7:30pm I notice that her lips are swelling and she has a strange "ring" rash on her arm.
By 2:30am we notice the rash is morphing and spreading to pelvic area and bum (sorry no photos posted of adorable bum).
By 7am rash that looks like welts is all over and the little ring shapes have broken open and look like whipping stripes and yes they are hurting her.
By 8:45am we are in the doctors office and I thought for sure he was going to tell me that she had Ring Worm in which I had become an expert on during this sleepless night trying to figure out what might be all over my daughters body. The doctor says "no" to ring worm but "yes" to virus hives.
What in the world is virus hives. Her body is producing too much histamine with the virus and her body is responding with hives....nice. He suggested giving her Benadryl and if that doesn't work in a couple of weeks to then give her steroids.
Three days later we are looking like this. The welts are less but it just keeps moving around and her face is swelling up again. The Benadryl isn't really working and we are giving her more than I really feel comfortable with.
Day four I wake up to this! Honestly, I barely recognized her...the pictures didn't really capture it.
Enough!
I am now getting pretty concerned that the swelling could turn inward and maybe start to restrict her breathing. I made an appointment with our alternative medicine doctor and discovered that her liver and kidneys are trying to push out toxins from something that has infected her, maybe like the three other viruses since her H1N1 dealio. While we are in the office the hives are moving all over her face and starting to reappear on her back, bum, tummy, feet, hands, and legs again.
Anyway, we are using homeopathy to assist in the cleansing and so far her face has shrunk quite a bit....wish us luck.
This has been the weirdest thing ever!
