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PIP: Please help...is this a hive??

kem717kem717 member
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Over Christmas, DD developed croup and a viral infection.  She got what I figured was hives on her trunk and over her eye.  It looked like a cluster of mosquito bites.  Ever since then, I'll notice what looks like a mosquito bite randomly on her body.  She had one on her back last week, but she seems to get them more frequently right around her knees.  I'll notice a red area on her body and with closer examination, I see a tiny white bump in the middle.  I told my pedi at her 15 month visit and he said he won't worry about it "yet."  I was just changing her and she had two, one on each shin.  I tried my best to get a picture. 

Here's her left leg, it had a larger red area with a tiny white bump in the middle:

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Here's her right leg, it's a more pronounced white bump:

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Any clues??  She's only had pancakes, an apple cinnamon cereal bar, milk and water so far today.  Or is it some kind of bug bite? I gave her straight peanut butter for the first time a couple of weeks ago and 10 hours later, she had a huge irregularly shaped "thing" on her shin, but she had been crawling around in the bath, so I figured it was just irritated.  I haven't given her PB since, just in case.

 

 

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Re: PIP: Please help...is this a hive??

  • mrs_kelly1014mrs_kelly1014 member

    That does look like a hive, however, I've never heard of someone having just one hive. Are you sure she didn't get bit by a bug?

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  • djandkellendjandkellen
    That looks like a bug bite to me.  Maybe an ant bite?  
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  • LotzodotzLotzodotz
    spider bite?
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  • Tess12Tess12 member
    That looks small to be a hive.
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  • betsnupbetsnup member
    Well, it looks like a hive, because D has been getting them quite a bit lately, but since you are only seeing one of them at a time, I agree with others that it is more likely a bug or spider bite.  However, my doc did tell us with Dawson's hives that even though he's off his meds, the hives can pop up for at least 3 weeks, sometimes as long as 6 weeks, so it's not completely out there that these are hives showing up.  Was her first batch of hives due to medication, or was it related to the infection itself?
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  • VinBertVinBert member

    I don't think it is a hive, since there is just one?  Also, I don't think hives have a center white dot.  Bug bige or some kind of skin irritation.  Does she itch it?

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  • kem717kem717 member

    I don't think it'd be ants, I've never seen and ant in my house, plus I think it's too cold for bugs in MI right now, lol! 

    I thought maybe it's irritation from crawling around (although she mostly walks now) and her pants, but she'll get them on her belly and back too.

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  • kem717kem717 member

    The outbreak of hives was just a reaction to the viral infection according to pedi. 

    She doesn't itch them.  Who knows, she could be getting them everyday, but I don't see them because she's clothed.  We have a cat...

    Wouldn't DH and I be getting bit too?

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  • sarajjsarajj
    I say, call your pedi.   It looks like a hive to me.  My DS has gotten 1 hive once (when he was 11 months old).  It was on his face.  It started out looking like that and then got bigger (covering almost his whole cheek).  I put a cold/wet rag on it and called the pedi.  They had me give him Benadryl for a couple of days.  He hasn't gotten another one since.  He hadn't eaten anything new either.  They (the medical experts) don't always know why people get hives.  It can be due to allergies, an environmental factor or stress, but sometimes they just seem to pop up.    I also just get 1 hive on my arm (in the same place every time).  Mine is induced by stress.  Mine starts out looking like your picture, sometimes it gets bigger, sometimes it doesn't.  
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  • kem717kem717 member

    imagesarajj:
    I say, call your pedi.   It looks like a hive to me.  My DS has gotten 1 hive once (when he was 11 months old).  It was on his face.  It started out looking like that and then got bigger (covering almost his whole cheek).  I put a cold/wet rag on it and called the pedi.  They had me give him Benadryl for a couple of days.  He hasn't gotten another one since.  He hadn't eaten anything new either.  They (the medical experts) don't always know why people get hives.  It can be due to allergies, an environmental factor or stress, but sometimes they just seem to pop up.    I also just get 1 hive on my arm (in the same place every time).  Mine is induced by stress.  Mine starts out looking like your picture, sometimes it gets bigger, sometimes it doesn't.  

    I'm wondering if there's a stress connection.  Would a crying jag be enough stress? lol  She was crying as I took her upstairs to change her diaper.

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