So DD has glandular fever, misdiagnosed as strep throat, given antibiotics for the first time in her life and now has hives. COVERED in hives!

[BriocheDoree]

Poor DD.
Doctor thought she had strep throat, but didn't do strep test as she couldn't get DD to open her mouth wide enough, and prescribed penicillin.
HOWEVER, if you have glandular fever, which presents very similar to strep throat, and take penicillin, it will bring you out in a really nasty itchy red all-over rash, very similar to allergic reaction, but itches like hell and won't respond to antihistamines.
SO because Doctor didn't do a strep test, DD is now screaming over the sheer itchiness, is red, raw and spotty from head to foot (even the soles of her feet) has missed the last two weeks of term and I feel like crap because I gave her the bloody medecine.
AND this was after me warning the doctor that all of DH's family was allergic to penicillin.

OK rant over now!

Oh dear! It really is very itchy (happened to dh)poor poor dd! Does a cool bath help?

Hows dd now?

Oh, she's better, but DS has chickenpox!
Thanks for asking.
However, it means that the 8-week-long holiday what-the-hell-do-I-do was made 2 weeks longer by the time she missed off school at the end of term!!

Oh no, how nasty.

Dd2 has scarlet fever last winter and we had to give her 2 weeks of Penicillin, luckily she was ok with it (apart from getting it into her), i was worried as i react like your dd with penicillin.

Hope she's feeling better.

Oh Brioche! Go the doc and get it documented.

DD1 is covered at the moment, too, because her epilepsy meds caused a reaction. She'd been saying for the whole 2 weeks she was on them that she didn't feel well after taking them

Oh dear! You are all having a time of it! Good dd is better.

Poor DD, I'm sorry. I hope she gets better soon.

DS doesn't do well with antibiotics neither, when he was bitten by a dog he was so ill with the antibiotic they prescribed (penicillin it was), he kept throwing up and was very unwell with redness on his chest, on the morning of second day only (we were supposed to give it to him for 3 complete days i think) we stopped giving it to him and he got better, no infection due to the bite came thankfully...