Grace woke up from her nap covered in little red bumps. All over her body, including her face. My kids have zero allergies, I have zero allergies, so you can imagine my reaction: Total. Freak. Out.
Our wonderfully calm doctor, with her soothing English accent, says they are probably hives, but if they are worse by tomorrow or if she has any more symptoms, I should bring her in to the office tomorrow morning.
So I’m sitting here waiting for Husband to come home. Trying to stay calm, when I am convinced that something is wrong with my baby girl. (Grace, for the record, is sitting calmly watching Sesame Street, completely oblivious to the distress she is causing me.) To top it all off, we are experiencing some sort of sewage back-up in the drain in our driveway, so our driveway is littered with used toilet paper. Nice.
This looks like the start to a relaxing weekend.
update: She does NOT have hives. We gave her Benadryl, which turned her into an air molecule, bouncing around the house, but did nothing for the spots. Which are spreading all over. Including her fingers, toes and ears. She isn’t uncomfortable and she doesn’t have a fever, so we decided not to go to the ER, but we’ll wait for tomorrow morning and go to the doctor’s office first thing. Still freaking out.
Sat morning update: Spots are almost gone and she is fine. No one has any clue what caused the spots, but she’s apparently okay. She’s not acting the least bit sick or uncomfortable and looks much more normal now that she doesn’t have spots all over her face. Husband and I both woke up this morning and ran straight in to see her! So, I’m not freaking out anymore… well, anymore than usual 
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Whaaaaaaaa???? Why do they think she has hives? Don’t they want to see her? Ugh. Did you give her Benedryl?
oh man./ Deep breaths girlie. KEEPUSPOSTED!!!
Chicken Pox?
What is it about the English accent that is so soothing? Totally does that for me, too.
Good luck with the spotty little girl! Hope it goes away and stays away!
Fifths Disease perhaps? My poor Gracie…
My seven year old son has now had hives twice in the last year, including last night. He also had joint swelling and pain the first time, which was really scary. They ruled out food allergies the last time. Benadryl helped reduce the itching but didn’t get rid of the hives. Anyway, we checked some time tables and realize we were painting with Behr latex paints at the exact time of both of his reactions. Any chance you were doing any painting at the time your daughter got her hives (even if you don’t think they were hives)? We’re trying to find other people with similar reactions to paint to see if we can be more sure that is the root cause. Thank you.