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worried about my son's legsSubmitted by PattyCakes on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 9:08pm.
his sisters have never been immunized, but I decided to get his. So hes been very crabby and listless and clingy, but hes had a cold and hes teething and then he got his shots. The past two days have sucked hes just been so emotional and screams if hes not held. Hes got HUGE golf ball sized lumps in his legs where the injections went. I am trying to find something on line and having no luck. Is this normal? From what I understand the lumps are normal. The only thing to watch for is if the swelling continues to spread (and spread and spread), turns bright, bright red and feels really hot to the touch. This happened to Devon and his WHOLE arm ended up swollen, rock hard and red. We were told it was a soft tissue infection-a freak thing-- and he was prescribed antibiotics (which he became allergic too, sigh). Then, when we finally decided to get his tetanus shot updated the same damn thing happened again and it was determined that he was allergic to something in the vaccine. Lovely. Yep that happened to S. A dose of Tylenol helped her a lot. my kid had that too once and it sucked. these side effects, though they certainly won't cure what has happened. Thuja is made from cedar, and it will purify the body after a big trauma, to a small area, like vaccinations. "Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself"DT Suzuki Here's a site I found with what sounds like your reactions (normal) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001389.htm#Symptoms Curious why you did not VAX your dd's, but choose to VAX your son? My kid just got her boosters this week. She starts kindergarten in Sept. i changed my mind. thats all. I wish my girls were vaccinated at an age where it wouldn't be torturous mentaly as well as physicaly. I havn't done anything about this connundrum yet. I hate to even think about it. M's 4.5 and it was really a bit anxiety causing (knowing she was getting shots). I don;t like to lie to her. On the drive down she asked, "Am I getting a shot?" and I said, yes, but it will be ok. Well, she started fretting right there and then. The whole exam was fun for her, they did a hearing test, eyes, etc.... and they make it all play based. In the end, she bucked up, but I was a wreck. I, origianly thought I would ask to split them up. My ped was fine with that, but said I would have to come back monthly for three months. I figured, in the end, better to just git er done. She never had reactions before and there's an outbreak of measles nw far from where I live so, I just went for it. She also needed a TB scrape for kindergarten (although that was no big deal). I'm sure your son teething does not help. DS had the same thing after one of his shots, they were VERY tender for a while but eventually went back to normal. I did give him som baby tylenol to help him deal with the pain. |
try not to worry about this, i'm sure by tomorrow, the swelling will go down completely.
both of my kids have experienced this, i think it's pretty normal. i nursed both of my kids, and they were chunky babies, i think that the swelling looked even worse on them because of it.
neither of them had reactions to the shots, but the redness was noticable.
i'm glad that you posted about this! it's times like these when reaching out to other women can help the most!
we've got mad info at our finger tips!
on the "guilt" note: your daughters are healthy and i think it's okay that you opted out on their shots. it's not for everyone, and i stand by your choice. period.
hearts,
dc
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