Few weeks ago, I read about the posts on Rachel’s swollen lymph nodes along the bikini line & Jeremy’s allergic on wheat . As a mother myself, I truly understand how Shannon & Anggie felt when I read their blog back then.
Guess what, Ching Ern had BOTH together yesterday!!! Surprisingly, I wasn’t that worried as I thought I would be. I have to admit my pregnancy helped me and hubby to be strong in our parenting journey.
While daddy was changing Ern in her pajamas on Monday night, he felt a swollen lump at the back of the right ear. The swollen lump is as big as a 20cent coin. I told daddy let’s observe for another day before we take Ern to see PD.
I did some reading about swollen lymph nodes before seeing the PD. The more I read, the more I am certain Ern has swollen lymph nodes. A human has 300+ lymph nodes and most of them are located around the head & neck.
We brought Ern to see PD and CONFIRMED it’s swollen lymph node - not only 1 but THREE (3) at the back of the head. PD asked if Ern has developed fever, flu or cough for the past few days and we told her no, she said good. Good in a sense Ern won the battle in fighting against the virus and bacteria without developing fever/flu/cough. However, the victory battle still leaves some mark behind, ie the swollen lymphb nodes. Nothing alarming but just need to monitor the nodes. As long as they are not growing any bigger or turn red, it’s absolutely fine.
Then, we happily brought her home, fed her dinner with boiled egg and cheese.
2 hours after the dinner, Ern started to rub her face and scratch her head. Her stomach and neck started to develop small rashes. So as her face, started to get swollen. We knew it’s food allergic but what puzzled us was, the food that we gave her, she tried it before weeks ago. Without hesitating, I sent her to see PD again at 8pm. Luckily, PD happened to be around and also puzzled like us why Ern develop allergic. Nevertheless, we were asked to feed medicine immediately before went home. PD also asked us to monitor Ern’s condition for the 8 hours. If the rashes doesn’t subside after 8 hours or Ern has difficulty breathing, we need to send her back.
Thank goodness we had no problem feeding Ern on the medicine. She didn’t make any fuss but drink as if she is eating ice-cream (yeah, I told her it’s ice-cream). When we reached home, the whole body typically swollen and red. Quickly applied the Calomine lotion and soon, Ern went to lala land. Maybe the medicine made her so drowsy until when we tried to wake her up at 12am for her next medicine feeding, she can’t seem to open her eyes but continue to sleep. In the end, I told daddy we skipped it since the rashes has gone done, just left with few spots.
Till now, we don’t know what caused the allergic but we know it’s food. What she ate after we came back from the afternoon visit:
1. Cereal: she has taken this cereal since month 6. So, we ruled this out.
2. Cheese: She has been eating plain cheese since last week. No problem at all. We ruled that out
3. Egg Yoke: We tried before her MMR injection. No sign of allergic as well.
4. Egg White: Poh Poh mixed the white and the yoke together last week. No problem
In the end, we conclude maybe the white serving is more this time, that’s why her body can’t cope. However, I am going to try again next week to determine if she is really allergic with egg white.
10 comments:
Probably just a mild reaction. Yes, try again in a week to see how it goes. Or maybe it's something she touched?
I'm sorry to hear that and I hope she is ok now.
Sometimes you just don't know what will trigger the alergy. Hopefully you can find the cause of the rashes.
it's always difficult to find the root cause of allergies...hope you all will be able to pinpoint what is causing it. Could it be that she's allergic to albumin?
Hope Ern is better now. Yah.. true.. very "sum tong" to see that happen to our kid.
When u read my post about jeremy allergies to wheat, the picture show the rash is becos of the wheat, as for egg white, it's will turn out small small red rash for jeremy but won cos swollen, not as bad as wheat.
But tonite... i duno what happen to jeremy, after my in law feed him 1 or 2 "biji" of rice which they are eating, i guess the rice get some "kuah' of the prown"har".. Jeremy both eyes turn red and swollen, same to the month. *-* . i always tell them try not to simple feed him anything, cos my boy hv serious skin allergies. but ..... :( .. i was mad inside me and send him to see PD, but too many people and he is getting "mangchang" becos of itch and hungry.. i cant wait, i send him back home, give him the medi i have + milk... & he snooze of very soon.
i think u properly give too much of egg white to ern.
i m wory too about this skin allergies as mom2ashley said, is difficult to find the root cause of allergies. Anyway, we have to try give them different food too at different ages. right? then only we know which can and cannot.
About the nodes, lastime Jeremy have 2 at the back of the ears, left and right, the PD said is normal, when u feel the nodes is obvious or bigger... means he will get heat or fever.. which is true.. after i notice the nodes, then after few days, Jeremy get fever. (Jeremy was 5 months that time). Unless our kids can overcome the sickness as u said in ur post.
Anyway. All the best to ur girl and u too on trying new foods in future ... (abit long my comments)
Justin has that swollen nodes too, but I didn't blog about them yet. As long as they are nothing serious...
It could be the cause reaction by the recent injection. Why I say like this, becoz I remembered when Vernon is about 3 to 4 months old. After he took an injection, he had a lymph nodes at his armpit. I also immediately consult Dr.Sim. Dr Sim told me that it will go away after 2 weeks with the medicine he gave to apply on it(Fucidin Ointment). it really go away after 2 weeks.
I think what u need is continue to observe.
Hi everyone - thanks for your wishes. Ern has recovered from the rashes but the nodes still there...
Poor Ern, hope you are getting better now and do get well soon so that you can continue eating delicious foooood with mummy and daddy!
wei wei, i now only read this post...
but glad she's ok with the allergy thing...
As for lymph nodes, well, Rachel's is still there even until now... But like you already know, just monitor lor, as long as it doesn't get bigger it's ok... :D
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