Don’t mess around wit this! I had an allergic reaction to Cefzyl, an antibiotic. I got immense hives. I called my doc when they started on my cheeks. Called my doc. He told me to get to the emergency room immediately! I was in the hospital for 3 days! My reaction may have been worse than that of your niece’s, perhaps because it was in my whole bloodstream, and not just one local spot, but, DON’T MESS AROUND WITH THIS!
AND GET RID OF THAT CORD!
I don’t mess with allergic reactions, and I’ve had several—the worst one being many years ago when I had an anaphylactic reaction to the latex in the bathing suit I was wearing. It apparently set in 12 hours after I had taken the suit off, which was 9 PM that evening. On my way home from the lake the next morning, my wrist was itching and when I checked it looked like I got nibbled by a few mosquitos.
By the time I arrived home, I was really starting to itch all over and I felt like I just needed to jump in the shower again and make sure all the lake water was off of me.
So I went right inside and took a shower, and when I was through the itching had turned into burning, so I looked in the mirror to see that my whole body had broken out in these huge, red welts—especially my face and lips. By the time I made it to the kitchen to get the cordless phone, my throat was starting to swell closed. I managed to call 911 and tell them what was going on, the fire department and an ambulance got there in less than five minutes, and I spent the rest of the day in the emergency room as they went about getting me stabilized (wasn’t easy). I had an irregular heart rhythm apparently from the ongoing reaction, despite the amount of I.V. fluids, Benadryl injections, steroid injections. They eventually sent me home with more diphenhydramine and more steroids, and was ordered to stay home until I saw the allergist. When I did he gave me an EpiPen and sent me home for an additional week, with orders to get rid of everything I owned that had latex in the waistbands and stay the heck away from bananas.