Ds2 (16) has always had hay fever/throat-clearing type symptoms ans the odd rash after food but last night something more serious happened.
he ate 4 Brazil nuts and a few minutes later his throat felt weird and his breathing became noisy. His eyes were red.
We happen to have a neighbour who is a local GP and he kindly came over. He got ds2 to take antihistamine. Then he got an inhaler, then a steroid inhaler. The throat cleared a bit and he sent ds2 to bed saying he should go to hospital if it didn’t settle. He said “we’d know by now” if it was going to be severe (he stayed with us for an hour)
I slept in the same room as ds2. Shortly after going to bed he got very agitated saying his heart felt like it was on fire. I thought it was a panic attack but then he threw up and after that it all subsided. He says his throat still feels a bit “cottony”.
I had assumed the vomiting was a response to the inhaler but Google tells me that vomiting and heart issues are actually part of anaphylaxis especially if food-related.
this morning I obviously called our own GP who ordered a RAST(?) test but that’s not till next Friday. She said normally you call 999 with any breathing issues.
I realised I’d failed to tel, her about the heart and vomiting to called back and gave a message to the receptionist.
dh is in complete denial saying “it could be nothing”.
it’s not though is it?
my neighbour has shown us where their epipen is (it went out of date in 2020).
Not sure what I’m really asking here. I guess a handhold? My older son had a life threatening emergency just a month ago requiring neurosurgery and I’m only just recovering from that!