Comments on: Rashes, Hives, and ear infections

By: Shivani

Shivani — Fri, 04 May 2012 03:04:51 +0000

Oh thank God, there are others. My 20 month old had what I thought was a virus; it lingered and turned into an ear infection and then she had an outbreak of hives that will not go entirely away even tough we have eliminated all possible physical and food allergies. Although as the amoxacillin is working the hives are getting better without benadryll. So hopefully it’s just from the infection and no food allergies….

By: Jessica Smith

Jessica Smith — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:46:01 +0000

My baby had hives this weekend, and I had no idea what they were. I took her to the walk-in clinic, and lo-and-behold, she had a double ear infection & a sinus infection. She didn’t present with any other symptoms like fever, favoring her ears, crying, or a runny nose. I spoke to my pediatrician’s nurse today, and she said that hives are a common symptom of infections and that they will last between 3 - 5 days. She said they will appear, change size, shape, and location, and then disappear. She said that even during treatment this will happen. I was shocked, as I’ve never heard of this, but after looking up some information online it seems to make sense.

By: Zoe's mommy

Zoe's mommy — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:22:44 +0000

Zoë had a horrifying yeast diaper rash. I found baking soda baths to work wonders! But about 6-7 oz of baking soda in a warm bath. Let her bottom air afterwards then apply lotruman cream. Use the cream each time you change her diaper. If it’s really bad and she won’t let you clean her bottom was it in the bath use a sprayer if possible. In two to three days the rash will subside I continue the baking sod baths for a couple of days after as well as the cream. The nurse that told me this should get an award!!! It works miracles just takes some time and extra care. If she us taking am antibiotic that you know has given her a yeast diaper rash before start her on these baths straight away to prevent the horrible thing. Hope this helps and please pass thus info on. Her doctor had never heard if this treatment it came from a nurse on the after hours hotline.

Best wishes
Zoë’s mommy

By: RachelGun

RachelGun — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:54:59 +0000

My daughter (8 months old) had/ has a double ear infection, we got amoxicillin from her ped and she has been taking it for 9 days now, the prescription is finished at 10 days. She has very sensitive skin. as a newborn she had a perma diaper rash/ yeast infection, i tried everything and we just couldn’t shake it completely. My friend suggested blow drying her bottom at each diaper change before putting on a new diaper. I have been doing that for months now and she hasn’t had any rash for over 4 months…. that is until she started taking the amoxicillin. The pharmacist warned us that diaper rash could be a symptom so we weren’t too surprised when she developed the diaper rash.

That being said, about 5 days ago i ran out of diapers. We have used Huggies and occasionally Pampers since she was born. I had bought a GIANT pack of Luvs online because they were a good deal in size 3. She was ready to move up to size 3 anyway so i started using those about 5 days ago, which was only a few days after we started the amoxicillin.

3 nights ago we rushed the baby to the ER because her entire face, and few other parts of her body, had broken out in some sort of allergic reaction that looked exactly like hives. Since arriving at the ER we had to watch her hives grow, redden, spread to surrounding areas and then begin to fade until they eventually were gone. We waited in the ER for 2 1/2 hours before we were seen by a doctor and by that time the hives had disappeared and they sent us home shaking their heads because we were stupid “first time parents”. Since then we experienced 6 rounds of these disappearing hives all over her little body, each round lasts for about 3 hours. She has since developed a cough and has occasional fevers and has almost completely lost her appetite.

To sum things up she has all the same symptoms. Ear infection, diaper rash, hives, fevers and loss of appetite. Makes me think she has the same issue as your son and that perhaps she is allergic to her new Luvs diapers. I have her in Huggies right now, we’ll see if her condition changes over the next few days with finishing the amoxicillin and changing back to Huggies.

My biggest question for you is if your son’s hives were only on his bottom or if he got them everywhere. My daughters last outbreak an hour ago was the first time i’d seen her have hives on her bottom as well as elsewhere.

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:59:12 +0000

this is Jonah’s second ear infection. I hope that we don’t have many more, especially if they’re going to cause him to have hives!!!

Do you remember what you used to treat Lyndsey’s hives? The hydrocortizone cream and benadryl just don’t seem to be cutting it. He woke up again covered in them. I’m still wondering about food allergies because his antibiotic is nearly done for the ear infection and his ears seem to be clear now. He’s so itchy that he’ll strip his clothes off and lay on the carpet and wiggle around so that it will scratch his itches!!!

By: pattyandthemoos

pattyandthemoos — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:47:45 +0000

I didn’t know this either. I have only had to deal with one ear infection believe it or not. I have been very lucky. Lyndsey has had hives before though a couple of times and it was usually because she was sick.