I Was On The Fence For A Reason
Jaimie on Nov 9th 2008
On October 27th, Alexa had the MMR vaccine at her well-child appointment. She seemed fine afterwards, no swelling, fever, or anything like that.
10 days later, she developed a rash that started on her legs and over the next 24 hours spread everywhere, as well as a fever. The pediatrician’s office made a few stabs at a diagnosis, and eventually, after the fever started, settled on a reaction to the MMR vaccine. According to my internet research, about 5% of children have a rash 10-14 days after the MMR.
That was Friday. Today (Sunday), she started to swell. Her face, her ankles, her hands - all swollen. I rushed her to urgent care this morning, and after examining her, they called our pediatrician’s office. The other pedi in the practice was on call, and he met us at their office to examine her himself. He declared her having a systemic, whole-body allergic reaction. To something. He claims the antibiotic she had to treat the ear infection, I am still suspicious about the vaccine itself. The reaction didn’t start until she’d had 20 doses of the antibiotic, so I find that, well, odd. The allergic reaction, whatever it is, is happening, and he gave her a steroid treatment in the office as we need to give her more steroids for the next two days. Oh, and a lot of benadryl. Around the clock doses.
And we see how she is by tomorrow. I’ve spent most of today in tears or folding laundry. I’ve never felt so helplessly scared in my entire life.
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I will be praying she is okay soon. I am so sorry you are going through this and hope it’s all over soon. Hugs!
How scary! Thoughts, hugs and prayers coming your way.
My son had the same reaction to an antibiotic(ceclor) after he was almost finished with his treatment. The way it was explained to me was that it was not the antibiotic itself, rather a bi-product of the antibiotic after it had metabolized.