Andrew goes to the Emergency Room

Andrew was playing basketball outside and his eyes started to swell shut. We gave him some benadryl right away thinking that it was an allergic reaction, but this is the 3rd time this month this has happened. His eyes and face started to get worse, so we took him into the Emergency Room. It took a couple of shots and an IV with medicine to get his face to stop swelling. The doctor said that it could be allergies or he could have hereditary angioedema. We are working on getting him into a pediatric allergy specialist for testing, but until then he has 4 medications in case it happens again and 3 epi pens. The swelling lasted for a couple of days and thankfully in the past couple of weeks he hasn't had it happen again. It is so scary to see your child in the emergency room with IV's. Andrew handled it so well though, he spent more time chuckling about the guy in the next bed who was drunk then anything.