Mummy's Thots: Bites, Swells and Scars

Poor girl was bitten by mosquitoes on Monday evening and all on the same left leg (2 on her feet and 1 on the leg). She couldn't’t sleep that night due to the itchiness and by the next day her foot had swelled up so badly that she was unable to bend her ankle and by evening she was limping and telling us it was pain. Her Daddy tried to soothe it by placing cold ice compression on the swelling and that kind of numb the itchiness for a while. After dinner, we gave her the previous medication for itchiness and rash fortunately due to the medication she was able to get an uninterrupted night’s sleep.

This morning the swelling was still there and in fact the toes were also pretty swollen. Decided to go consult the PD since she’s was still limping and at the same time replenish the medications. PD comment was that she has very sensitive skin but will outgrow it soon, and this time round he also prescribed her antibiotics because the redness around the toes looked serious and warrants it.

Hiaz…poor girl always have to suffer when she gets bitten and worse of all after that get all the ugly scars too!!! I’m wondering when she will outgrow this ultra sensitive reaction to insect bites??? Too bad of all things she inherited the sensitive skin allergy from me – her case reminded me of myself a few years back when I got bitten by god knows what and my foot swelled like pig trotters, was also given antibiotics, cream and anti-histamines :P. Sorry babe mummy hopes your foot gets better soon, than you can go out to play.