Brooklen's Bite!

Something bit Brooklen!  We really don't know what it was, but she was bit & had a HORRIBLE allergic reaction!!  She was bit on Wednesday, the bite was raised a bit and red, but nothing out of the ordinary.  She does always have a worse allergic reaction to bug bites than the other two, but nothing like this one ended up looking like!
Then on Thursday when we were out for lunch- it got HUGE!  It swelled up like a goose egg and was warm to touch.  Right after lunch we went to the pediatrician.  (only good thing out of this is we had to find a pediatrician!)  The Dr. looked at it & said it wasn't infected, she was just having an impressive allergic reaction to the bite.  Dr. drew a line around the redness, said to give her Benedryl & said if it went out of her pen markings to bring her back in for possible infection.....or if red lines were streaking up her arm to take her to the emergency room.

 

On Friday, the redness went out of the pen markings & it was still really warm to touch so we went back in & the Dr. drew another pen mark.  Gave her antibiotics & said to continue with the Benedryl & all should be better by Saturday & just continue to get better.  But, if any red streaking up the arm =  emergency room!

By Saturday her arm was much better & Sunday/Monday it was looking back to normal!  Still don't know what the heck bit her!  It gave me a pretty good scare!  So much that part of me wants to get an epipen in case she has a horrible reaction to another bug bite or a bee sting!!