He’s reacting to Amoxicillin...

Lucas is turning red with white hives all over ...he's only had 2.5 doses (5mls) of the stuff, last being at dinner time and the rash started on his feet and now is all around the sides of his face ...should I be concerned that it will worsen or lead to anaphylaxis or just leave him as is and ring the Dr tomorrow to have the AB's changed.

For some reason I'd thought we'd already had this stuff before (when he had conjunctivitis as a newborn) but I looked in his well child book and realised it was Eurythymicyn.

Has anyone elses bubba had a reaction to Amoxicillin?

I would watch him very closely and if he starts having any breathing problems ring an ambulance
According to pharmacy book i have: itches and hives are a rare reaction to this drug you should stop and consult gp other reactions can be: severe diahorrea, jaundice - yellow colouring. also vomiting
Is he allergic to penicillin? this is from that family.

I'd definitely go to the doc right now. Depending on how serious his reaction is it could potentially get worse and he may need an adrenalin shot to stop him going into shock.

Not trying to scare you, but in my experience you just don't mess with allergies and if they're all over his body it's pretty serious.

I am allergic to Amoxicillin, and had the exact same reaction as Lucas is having. Take him to the docs straight away.     

I didn't think they were giving amoxicillin anymore, I saw it on the news a little while ago that they were giving all children different antibiotics now. Sam has been on antibiotics four times in the last couple of months and they never give him that one anymore, it's always that vile flucloxicillin.

Good luck Steph.    

Renee you've brought up a good point, i too remember that being covered on the news and i just googled ....i found this article and this paragraph stuck out like a sore thumb:

A lower-dose formulation of amoxicillin syrup was not affected. It was the one more likely to be given to babies and toddlers, Dr Bloomfield said. Amoxicillin use had side-effects, including a rash, but there had been no reported increase in side-effects.

good to hear it appears to be settling, i hope it continues to go that way. id deff let your gp know tomorow.

Hi Steph,

Benjy had the same reaction a few months back to Amoxycillan.
After 2 doses he came up in hives which started out as small patches around his body, we thought it was flea bites and didn't think much of it as he was still happy as larry.
They seemed to fade after a little while and I gave him his next dose. That was when we realised it was an allergic reaction.
Within 30 mins he was covered in hives, by the time we got to A & E he was looking quite puffy too.
They gave him an anti-histamine and he was all good again by morning.
They said he should only have sulphur based antibiotics from now on.
I'd be heading back to the docs to switch antibiotics if I were you.
Hope he's better soon!

I got some photos just now, it appears to be lingering ...and the rash will come up on certain areas and then disappear again within minutes ...hes itching like crazy! We've got an appointment at 9.45am .....as horrible as this sounds, i hope it lingers so they can see it for themselves.



He gets patches like this cropping up anywher and everywhere ...so random! Last night he was absolutely covered in redness and little welts like on his leg above

Yup that's exactly what Benjy had.
Poor wee Lucas!

Hope the antihistamine kicks in quickly Steph, poor wee boy