We camped locally this weekend and were coming home yesterday. We were about thirty minutes from home and we no sooner got on the road and I started to feel funny. Funny strange, not funny ha-ha. Roof of mouth was getting itchy, upper lip was swollen, throat was getting sore, upper chest was burning, and when I looked in the mirror, left eye was almost completely swollen shut and the right one was almost as bad. Felt itchy on my arms and discovered I had hives along with the other symptoms. About 5 miles from home, I told hubby that I needed to get to a dr., I called the clinic and they said to come in. They gave an injection of epinephrine (sp), watched me for a while, and sent me home with meds. I have no idea what might have triggered this reaction. Anybody else ever have a reaction such as this?

Not quite as dramatic as this, but yes. When camping, you risk running into many different hazards like insects and plants, and even flying wildlife! I've had to recuperate from various rashes and swelling, but this sounds very serious. I'm glad you went in to the clinic right away.

Sunday morning I woke up with a very puffy cheek, but that has more to do with one of the three crowns I got in the last couple months. Can you say abscess? And can you say ENOUGH!!

Yup, had this happen to a friend, but she was in her car alone, driving! So she stopped at the next town's hospital. She had just eaten something from a fast food joint on the road.

Scarey, she had trouble the next couple years and never did figure out what it was. She's OK now.

Way back a bunch of us guys were hiking in the hills/mountains in Hawaii and found some mangoes. One of us had a reaction. As we were headed out of the mountains to the hospital we started arguing about who would get his truck if he died! Of course some of us have outgrown such childishness! Glad you're OK.

Dirt

PS. BTW, what kind of car do you have.

Dirt-
Drive a Chevy Colorado, but that's another PITA.

Binnylou, you might want to see an allergist and get some tests done to find out what triggered your allergic reaction to whatever it was. Don't want it to happen again! I have a couple friends who have to carry an epi-pen with them just in case.

Mainebird-

I've suffered allergies most of my life, mostly seasonal hayfever. Had the series of test done probably 40 years ago and did the allergy shots for what seemed like forever. As I've gotten older, the hayfever bothers less and the food allergies don't bother like when I was a kid. Couldn't eat bananas, cantalope, carrots without it driving me crazy with an itchy mouth. Those foods no longer bother me.

Hubby and I had the same thing for lunch yesterday with the exception of the condiments. He had mustard and I had restaurant pack Miracle Whip. Guess what I'm not eating any more of.

So what's in Miracle Whip that you might have reacted to?

Eggs, oil, what else?

I personally don't eat it so I don't know what else is in it but I would definitely check it out!

My wife suffers from some of the foods you mentioned, and we have discovered over the years that she seems to add allergies from time to time--the last time was Ibuprophen, the time before that was a bee sting. IMO, an epi-pen is a good thing to keep with you, especially with the "surprise" attack you just had.

Sounds like a checkup with an allergist would be a good idea, and some new allergy tests.

It would be good to know what it was that you had a reaction to. I'm glad you're okay now!

--J--