A scary weekend - Real Mum story on MoM

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So my 6 year old son went into anaphylaxis on the weekend and it was such a scary experience. We had no idea what had happened. He had a high temperature at around 2am I gave him panadol and neurofen, still it had not come down, so i placed a cool pack on his forehead. At around 3am he said “mummy, I can’t breathe”. I turned on the lights and my poor baby had swollen eyes, swollen mouth and face. I was so scared, my husband quickly called the ambulance and within 10 minutes they were there. He was taken to the hospital where they had given him adrenalin and a nebuliser. My 6 year old had a oxygen level of 82 and tachycardia, he was placed on oxygen mask and in hospital for about 9 hours.

Thank god he is much better now but still we have no answers as to what this allergy is. He has allergies to mold, dustmite and grass but not at 3am in the morning surely? At the end he was given an epipen but with allergies unknown.

any mum’s out there with any ideas as to what this could be please let me know

Posted by stephanie_wozniak, 3rd July 2013

12 Comments

- - joanne said
  - 05 Sep 2015
    5:28 pm
oh dear glad he is ok

- - mom57522 said
  - 05 Jan 2015
    4:40 pm
Poor kid and mum! I bet you watch him like a hawk.

- - mom94125 said
  - 02 Jan 2015
    11:45 pm
wow it is so frightening when kids get sick like that! especially not knowing why

- - aussiemum said
  - 28 Feb 2014
    8:33 pm
Oh my God, that is just so scary. Especially as you don’t know what the cause of it is. Did you ever find out?

- - snoopy said
  - 09 Jul 2013
    12:45 pm
I always find it scarey when their temperatures rise, especially if you just can’t get it to go down.

- - earthlydelites said
  - 04 Jul 2013
    8:27 pm
allergic reactions and shock are scary things, I hope your son is ok now!

- - myst_angel335 said
  - 04 Jul 2013
    4:18 pm
Is it possible that Mosquito or another insect bit him? Only last year we saw a change in our Son’s mosquito bites would swell up.

- - cinta said
  - 04 Jul 2013
    11:59 am
Oh so scarey glad he is ok now, hope you find out what trigged it

- - taz_za87 said
  - 04 Jul 2013
    11:27 am
Omg what a horrific event on you all i wish him a speedy recovery

- - curlytops said
  - 04 Jul 2013
    10:56 am
poor you how frightening. I am so glad he is ok now.

- - stephanie_wozniak said
  - 04 Jul 2013
    9:19 am
Thank you, he is much better now but we still have to keep an eye on him. Its just scary because any little sniffle or cough and i go into panic mode. I know I shouldn’t but ill have to work on that one day at a time

- - catherines said
  - 03 Jul 2013
    11:08 pm
This would have been so frightening! Hope your son is much better now.