Amoxicillin Allergy

Poor Drew! We've had family here for the last two weeks, but the weekend prior to their arrival we were all sick at our house (no fun!). Andy and I were hit pretty hard with fevers, sore throat, aches, etc. We thought we were lucky and it didn't get to Drew... until late Sunday night/Monday. He didn't sleep at all. He didn't have a fever, but was very irritable, and was obviously in pain. I took him into the Dr. on Monday to find out he had a double ear infection. Poor little guy! In all his 27 months of life, Drew has never had one before, so this was all new for us. We went to the pharmacy to get his first ever medication for the infection: Amoxicillin. He started on it, and within a day he was acting fine and happy (thank goodness, family was coming into town that day!) Then, all of a sudden the next Monday-- after being on the antibiotic for 1 week, he broke out in this terrible rash. It quickly spread over his whole body. We took him to the Dr. again, where he determined that Drew has an allergy to amoxicillin. SO, hopefully we won't have a go around with antibiotics again for a while, but the next time we do: it won't be amoxicillin. Here is a picture of our sweet little rashed up boy-- this is after 24 hours of benadryl-- the rash had already completely cleared up on his face, and had lightened all over the rest of his body.


Oh, and my child will not smile for the camera without closing his eyes anymore :o) What a goof!