Has anyone experienced hives that continue to get worse after piriton wears off? My 5yo had randomly got a bad case of urticaria after we'd spent the day at gullivers theme park. It continued to get worse at home so gave piriton, which seemed to help a bit with the itching initially but didn't particularly help clear the hives. I took her to urgent care who just said to keep giving piriton and keep her cool as heat makes it worse.
Then during the night she had a temperature and the hives were spreading and getting worse, she was covered in huge areas of raised red skin rather than little spots, so I called 111 who said basically the same thing as urgent care and said that urticaria can come and go even with piriton. Finally managed to get paracetamol in her at 5am and she is brighter now but she had a rough night the rash is still there, maybe not quite as bad but still pretty bad, and still very itchy. It seems to be fading in some places then coming up in others. I'm still giving piriton.
I've no idea if it's an allergic reaction or viral. We've done a covid test but it's negative, although it's difficult to get a decent swab off her.
I've never seen hives/urticaria like this before, is this common? We're booked in to the gp later for a full check over but keen to hear others experiences as both my girls have had allergic reactions before but nothing like this.
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