Hives

On Friday afterschool I noiced Ali had about 10 mosquito bites on her legs. I thought this was odd and couldn't figure out when she would have gotten them. I chalked up to her sitting outside during recess. Jason and I went out to dinner and when we got home Ali was making noise in her bed so I went in to check on her. I felt her belly since she said it was itchy and there were welts all over it. I got the flashlight out (her room was dark and Sofia was sleeping) to check her and sure enough she had hives. What I thought had been a few mosquito bites turned out to be hives and had drastically increased in size and number. I gave her some claratin since we didn't have any children's benadryl. This seemed to help some but was still not great. In the morning I picked up some benadryl from a friend and gave that to her. That also helped a little but not as much as I would have expected. We have kept her on the antihistamines all weekend. Last night was defintely the worst. Her belly was one giant hive. She as so itchy and the antihistamine didn't seem to be doing anything. I finally decided that I would bring her to the doctor this morning but when I got back from my run and she was awake her hives were alredy going away. We sent her to schoool and told her teacher to call if the hives flared up again. I hope that they just go away. I have no idea why she got them since she hasn't had anything different to eat and her schedule has been the same so she hasn't been exposed to new bushes/leaves. I will just hope that this was a one time event.