My 11 year old stepped on a bee about 24 hours ago, she seemed fine all day... her foot was red and swollen, but nothing big. Tonight her toes are now HARD... ROCK HARD and it seems as if where her toe connects to her foot... it nowis almost ready to break open. This is even after 3 rounds of Benedryl today... It seems like it is spreading up her ankle Do I wait till morning for her pediatrician? Or take her to the ER? Is she allergic? She has been stung before... and never reacted like this! WOW!
Okay so the ER did absolutely nothing sent her home and said just rest. I was still concerned so I called the pediatrician she is gone. For a week! So I went to quick care because it is worse this morning. She has cellulitis and was diagnosed less than 12 hours after her ER visit! If she isn't any better in 48 hours or the swelling moves farther up her leg she has to go in for IV antibiotic treatments... Grrrr I'm calling the ER and demanding my co pay back.
That definitely warrants a trip to the ER now do not wait. Sounds like an allergy and if it was mild the benedryl should have taken care of the problem... the fact that it didn't work scares me. Good luck, ler us know what happens!
All I know is that bee stings aren't like colds where you get better and stronger after each one. They are the opposite, after each sting your reaction gets worse, so I'd take her in pronto.
No sense in losing a toe or foot over it, they'll know how to get the swelling down fast to save those tootsies!
I would take her to the ER. Or get her in immediately.
My father was deathly allergic but it didn't matter where he was stung, his eyes swelled shut and his tongue got so swollen he couldn't get any air. His face swelled 5 times it's normal sze. He could be stung on the finger or toes and the same result. He had to have an epi-pen.
There are allergies and then there is anaphalactic shock which chokes off the airways.
I wouldt take your child to make sure it was a bee and not a spider or something. You never know.
Something from her toe is spreading to her ankle...
There's no time to mess with it.
She will likely be given medicine that will make her get over it, but don't wait any longer.
Please let us know how she's doing.
Baking soda and water always works for me. Make a paste out of it and put it on the sting sight. Leave it on until it gets hard and crusty. You might have to do it several times. I don't know if it would work since the sting is 24 hours old, but it's worth a shot. I usually do it immediately after getting stung. It draws the poison out. It works for mosquito bites too.
TAKE HER IN!! She is obviously having some reaction that is not responding to Benadryl. However, at ten years old, I was stung under my pinky toe which resulted in my whole foot swelling and all the way up to my knee. My parents did not take me to see a doctor due to finances and I ended up fine. I think your Mama instincts will lead you best. Anaphalactic reactions are NOT something you mess around with though. I think if it were anaphalactic, it would have affected her breathing sooner than this. Good luck. Let us know!!
Take her to the ER! She could have been stung 50 times before and just now is having a reaction. Just take her in, it is not worth the risk.
Good luck!
Take her in right away. If the Benadryl hasn't worked you need to take her. Usually allergies don't appear with the first encounter, but the second.
I'd call the ER advice nurse and ask about it.
This is not the reaction to an allergy. An allergic reaction is having difficulty breathing, swollen eyes, others such as Shane B. described. Your daughter's reaction is confined to the place of the sting and area adjacent to it. It sounds to me that her reaction, tho it may be somewhat exaggerated, is the common sort that happens with insect stings.
The nurse will be able to tell you what is best to do.
Something similiar happened to my son-what ended up happening was that the poison entered the blood stream and was traveling through his foot, up his body. I took him to the pediatrician and he gave him a strong first dose of med's and then we were on them for about 14 days. IT was a fluke thing but the Dr said it could have been very dangerous if I did not get the med's in him. Hoepfully you have it all resolved by now. (The funny thing to my story was that my son had a class trip to a bee farm the next week and the teacher was so worried and did not even want him going-I ended up going on the trip too!) Let us know how it turned out for her!
A simmilar thing happened to my son but it was his hand. His hand swelled three times it's normal size. Even with treatment, the swelling took a week to go down. Benedryl was the only thing the doctor suggested to use. If the swelling gets worse or if your daughter has trouble breathing at all, then get her to the ER.
If she has only been stung once before, she wouldn't have had a reaction. It's the second bee sting that causes the reaction. But I would definitely take her in right away. You don't want to mess around with something like that.
