Sunday, December 9, 2007

Shane's strange allergy

This morning Shane woke up very hungry. So after feeding him a full glass of milk from the fridge he was shivering quite a bit. I think the milk just made him cold. So we grabbed a blanket from the family room and wrapped him in it. He was very content to be held on Jeff's lap while warming up. After about 10 minutes he was ready to leave the blanket behind and come eat some breakfast in his high chair. He started eating and quickly began to sneeze repeatedly, nose running, itchy eyes, face and ears and was just generally miserable. Jeff said maybe he's allergic to something but we couldn't think of anything new that he'd eaten. So after eating a very little he was so tired and miserable that we decided to see if he wanted a nap. He gladly layed down and slept for 3 hours. When he awoke his face and eyes were so swollen that it was hard for him to see. We realized it was an allergy and gave him some benadryl. After thinking it through we have concluded that the only new thing he'd been introduced to this morning was the blanket...it was a down feather blanket. Who knew!!! We won't be wrapping him up in that blanket for a long time. :)

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