My 16 year old dd has suffered a severe allergic reaction to something causing her lips, eyes, hands an feet to swell and a rash to cover her body, coming up an going down. After seeing 3 really reassuring drs they say they think it was caused by something she ate but unless we can pinpoint what caused it they can't refer her for allergy testing. I can see their point but I can't think of anything different she ate (although she did eat a lot of mixed seeds and nuts during the day but she never has a problem with them) and we are all concerned it will happen again. The whole incident has not been helped that she had an allergic reaction to piriton (she was almost crawling put her skin within half an hour of taking it, hallucinating and falling over) but now on her third antihistamine and 4 days later we are starting to see an improvement.
Sorry for the long post but wondered if anyone had advice on getting a referral or should we just see if it happens again, it's all been so scary for her.
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Sudden and severe allergic reaction
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Anushka · 28/04/2016 20:28
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