Here in God's country we have some nasty critters. I have posted before on Eirena's discovery of fire ants. It wasn't happy. Well, Eskil has discovered them too in the past. He has always had a fairly strong reaction to their bites but two days ago it was something else...
the poor little guy got 12 bites on one foot. I couldn't count the other foot. It looked rather red and swollen so we called the doctor. Based on our description, they wanted to see him. The nurse practitioner saw him first and called the doctor. The doctor was rather concerned.
Apparently he has a moderate to severe allergy to fire ant bites. So much so that now Dr. Daddy and I are supposed to carry an epi-pen with us in case he is bitten and it turns really bad. Thankfully he has responded well to the Benadryl and steroids and unless the bites get infected he should recover from this episode.
His chubby little feet were extra chubby with the swelling. But thankfully that has gone down now. He has really complained at all about them and has charged on with life. Too bad for him he can't walk around barefoot in the grass anymore.
1 comment:
oh no! poor Eskil. That's so awful and scary for you guys. So glad he's ok and getting better!
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