The peanutbutter fiasco

I decided in my infinite wisdom to give William a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  He had taken some of Evelyn crust with peanut butter twice and had been ok so I thought we were safe.  He ate the sandwich and seemed to love it.  As he waited for me to clean him up he seemed a bit more impatient than usual - it must have had something to do with his face... Nothing seemed to be wrong until I washed off the residual peanut butter and Jelly.  This is when I discovered that his face (at least where the peanut butter was) was completely red and he had two pimple like bumps on his face. once the red calmed down a little bit he had a little bit of a splotchy hive like rash, no swelling or trouble breathing but I called the doctor just to be on the safe side.  by the time the nurse had called back the signs of the reaction had disappeared (much like it did with the yogurt).  the nurse instructed me to give him benadryl which I did then after talking to the doctor she sent us to the ED.

Jason had to leave robots to come see how he was doing and grandma and grandpa bless them came to pick up Evelyn so that she didn't have to hang out with us in the ED.  He didn't have any further reaction but we stayed put for 5 hours just to be safe.  we were discharged with the advice to give him benadryl for a few days and follow up with our doctor.  the first doctor we saw said much of what I had read on allergies that there is no way to predict the outcome of the next exposure - it could be worse, it could be nothing.  the second doctor seemed to stress the reaction could disappear and we could have no more problems in the future minimizing the fact that the next one could be much worse. 

I left feeling not so confident and very worried then at the end of the night when I gave him his benadryl I accidentally gave him ibuprofen - not a good mistake to make.  But I caught it 2 hours later and gave him his dose.  having him go the extra time between doses with out incident gave us a little more confidence but Jason still slept in William's room to keep an eye on him.