Just had such a scare.
My 4yo DD and I got into a freshly run bath together. Within 2 mins she said "my skin itches!" And hives started to break out all over her skin, wherever it was under the bathwater line.
I have never seen anything like it! The bumps grew so fast! As I watched they grew and spread all over. We whipped her out the water and within 30mins the rash mostly faded.
I just can't understand it. The bathwater was just run, no chemicals, soaps, bubbles etc in it at all. It was a normal hot temperature, just how I always like it everynight. I was fine and as we were bathing together I am convinced there was nothing wrong with the water - or I would have reacted too.
She has had a cold the last 2 days and has a mild cough, but otherwise is entirely healthy. No history of allergies at all.
How can she have had an allergic reaction to water?!?!
She's asleep now, after an hour of us staring at her skin!
Go to the GP in the morning, I suppose, but I expect the rash will be entirely gone by then.
I'm very shocked. It was so sudden.
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Sudden urticaria - in bathwater
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Polyethyl · 19/10/2017 22:57
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