Bee Sting Allergy

Haedyn -with his big loving heart -decided to rescue a bee from a bucket of water on Monday. after picking it up repeatedly (couldn't let the ants get it either) it stung him on his middle finger. Little did we know of the adventure we were about to have----

He woke up at 1am crying from the pain. you can see the swelling and the beginnings of a bruise. He got some Tylenol & Benadryl and went back to bed

We were in for a surprise when we woke up- his finger was double sized, swollen to te second nuckle and in more pain. Benadryl didn't do the trick. We went to the doctor to have it looked at. He said it was definitely a bee sting allergic reaction, gave us Prednisone and said to keep up the Benadryl around the clock and ice it. He also got Meds for his Hemophilia to eliminate that as a cause of his swelling since it was beginning to bruise.

By bedtime (27 hours afer the sting) his whole hand was swollen - no more knukles! but the doctor had told us it could get worse before it  got better.

Here is the bruising and his palm swelling.

Wednesday morning Hedyn gave us another surprise- big water blisters! One across the crease and a bigger one on the side with lots of tiny red blisters and even more swelling, his skin was now shiny it was so tightly stretched.

We were a bit perplexed by the blisters since those are not listed anywhere as a reaction to Bee Sting - so back to the doctor we went. They added an antibiotic and Tylenol with Codine to Haedyn's list of medicines. There is a danger of a sceonary infection and Haedyn was in so much pain he was waking every hour- even with Benadryl.

48 hours has passed so hopefully the reaction has peaked and it will begin to heal. Our doctor said that one positive is that his Allergic reaction was localized to his hand and we didn't have breathing problems.

Haedyn said he has learned his lesson- NO PICKING UP BEES!!!!