There is no pain associated with it although one time he did say his arm felt weird. It has happened three times and it changes which side of the face it happens on. We have searched his bed, changed all his bedding, moved him to our room even, but we can't figure it out. Then, during the day he keeps breaking out in horrible hives like this.......
The hives happened again today during school. He woke up with one spot, but they progressively got worse and all he was doing was school work with me. We have thought about everything he has eaten (no changes in diet), any plants he has played with, no changes in detergent or anything with the laundry. We truly have no explanation of why this is all the sudden happening. We are worried that the reaction is going to be more severe, possibly moving to his airways. Luckily we have an epipen on hand, but please pray that this gets better and not worse. And if anyone has any thoughts we are open to hear them.
Oh my goodness! We will be praying you find a solution to this. Not knowing what it is is so frustrating.
ReplyDeleteKari, it reminds me of Karis and Mozambique and how every morning she woke up she would look like that. We all thought it was a spider, but she would even tie a bandana around her face and it still happened...I will be praying for your sweet boy and that you find the problem quickly.
ReplyDeleteSam, I had completely forgotten about that. I worried this was some kind of bug in his bed, but when it happened even after we moved him I ruled it out.
ReplyDeletePoor guy! Praying!
ReplyDeleteMr Rob
Kari,
ReplyDeletePoor Karson! It looks to me...if you don't mind if I make a Natopathic guess here based on what you have already tried and eliminated that it may be an airborn allergen. I'm not sure what he could be coming in contact with there. Here in MO, when my son was younger and he came in contact with pollen from ragweed he had a similar reaction. BTW, he is so sensitive to it we are not talking walking in it but just having it in the air from the car into the house.
During peek times we would wash his face, eyes and hands before he went to bed. We used potato water which helped reduce swelling at first then we used a homeopathic (Similason) allergy eye drop before bed and right after he got up and this cleaned the eyes and it drastically reduced the problem nearly completely. He also got very similar welps to the ones I see here that would come and go on his body ...usually the trunk area.
Once an allergen is localized such as in the case of an eye during sleep time, the eye is not able to flush it out and as a build up that allergen in the system and welps may develop. You are right to be worried about futher issues. We found the eye drops to be a great short term help but it did not get to the base of the issue. For that we would need to have a long term plan.
It took us two peak seasons to figure out exactly what it was for us. His longterm treatment may look different than what you might do with Karson but I will tell you what we choose. We did a homeopathic outdoor allergy biodrop. We didn't want him doing allergy shots constantly. He's 15 now and I believe we made the correct choice for him.
I wish you the best in finding out what it is and soon. God Bless,
Jo