Football Injuries

Poor H. Flag football has started. Notice I said Flag football, as in no tackling? Therefore theoretically no injuries?

Wednesday H's nose and mouth hit some other kids forehead pretty hard. ( This just a week after H's front tooth hit his friend Justin's forehead and Justin had to get the cut dermabonded ). His nose was swollen, his lip bloody, and no he didn't have his mouthguard in like he was supposed to. We got home that night, gave him some Motrin, and off to bed he went. At 12:30 he woke me up with an upset stomach and trouble breathing. I, in my infinite nursing wisdom, told him that he had probably swallowed some blood, and that his nose was swollen, making it hard to breath and to go back to bed. At 1:30 he woke us up again. Howie checked him out and called me down. H's back, chest and face were covered in half dollar size hives. Big, swollen, nasty hives. He was also wheezing. We gave him 50mg of Benadryl and an Albuterol treatment, at the same time racking our brains as to what the H*** would cause this. Not the Motrin, no sign of a bug bite, no change in detergent....and then I remembered the huge plate of popcorn shrimp he had for dinner. H has never had shrimp, but M could eat them by the bucketful. Cocktail shrimp, shrimp dip, but he especially LOVES popcorn shrimp. That enticed H to try them the othernight, and lo and behold, it's probably the only plateful he'll ever have. Bummer.

P.S. We had him checked out by the peds on Thursday. No broken nose, no loose teeth, but now we have to avoid Red Lobster and carry an epi-pen everywhere!