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I drove DS1 to the ER twice - once for each food reaction he had. The first was when he was just after 1 and had egg for the first time. It was a surface reaction, but scary for us, so I took him right away. The second time was way worse, and I should have given him his epi pen. He had a handful of cashews when DH got home from work when he was 3.5, and started throwing up about 10 minutes after he had them. I had been so long since I reviewed the protocol as to what symptoms mean automatic epi pen injection, and DH wanted us to wait and not take him.

I called his pediatrician, and it was after hours. The nurse line patched us through to the on call doc, and he told us to go right away and his throat would be closing. I ran him out the door without his epi pens, though the hospital is literally 5 minutes away. We walked in, and I was grabbing his insurance card from my purse when he threw up all over me. They brought him right in, weighed him and gave him a shot of epinephrine. About an hour later, his hives were coming back, so they gave him another shot. Seriously the scariest moment of my life...mainly because I was there alone with him while DH stayed at home with DS2.

Aside from those two incidents, we've never been to the ER with DS2. I'm knocking on wood right now.

2 times with my oldest. Christmas Even when he was 2.5 he got very sick suddenly and spiked a nearly 105 fever. Ended up with croup and pneumonia. Again when he was 3.5 or maybe 4. Said his leg started hurting and when I was giving him a bath I noticed a crazy looking red line running down his leg and then it spread out. It looked like a spider bite but was totally flat. On-call nurse told us to go to ER. We never figured out what it was and it went away in a few weeks.

ER once with my youngest. I thought he had RSV and he did. They pretty much did nothing for us, I should have waited and seen a pedi in office the next day, but he was only 12 weeks old at the time with a 102 fever so I had to take him.