Spencer's Mysterious Hives

My poor baby. Today at school, I got pulled out of class because Spencer had a "rash" on his face. So I went to the office and his teacher was holding him and what I saw was MUCH worse than I expected. His whole face was swollen with hives and he looked awful. They had not given him anything new or strange to eat, so the cause was a mystery. I decided that I would give him some Benadryl which they had in the office and see if it got better. About 30 minutes later, I went to check on him and the hives had spread over his entire body. He was also coughing and crying. So at this point I was a little freaked out that his throat might close up or something. I ran back to Claire's office and said I had to leave then drove him to the doctor. When we got there, even the nurses looked concerned and they got us back to see the dr quickly. After all my panic, it turns out that he has a virus and apparently these types of hives can happen in babies with this virus. So there is really nothing that I can do, and the hives will go away when the virus does - probably a few days. At least he seems to be ok, just normal sick acting. So I guess all's well that ends well, but that was scary!

Some pics - these do not do it justice though.