Ty was looking a little spotty again!

My poor Ty has had hives more than a couple of times in his short life!  From various things like amoxicillin, sunscreen, regular laundry detergents (which all make him break out pretty bad) to other random things that I'm not really sure what it is, but are very mild cases.  However on the last day of our Wisconsin Adventure I noticed Ty was breaking out in hives again.  They started off pretty mild, but ended up getting pretty bad about 10 days later.  They would be bad, then fade and then come back worse.  So I took him to the doctors a couple of times to try to figure out something, but because he was exposed to so much over vacation we were having a hard time narrowing it down.  By this time it was over 4 weeks of pretty bad/consistent hives, so our doctor sent Ty to see an allergy specialist for allergy testing.  My poor baby had to endure over 30 pricks on his back.  Those were the most common allergens.  All those purple dots represent a prick, the purple circles were hives that were already there.  So we wait to see if he has a reaction and no reaction to anything, so they have to go on to give 6 shots in one arm of a higher dose of the 6 most common things and no reaction to those either!  Although it really sucked for Ty, he took it like a champ.  He let me hold him and hug him and he just sat there completely still (while crying of course!!) and let them do what they needed to do.  I was really proud of the way he handled it.  So even after his extensive allergy testing, we still do not know what he is allergic (or maybe sensitive is a better word for it) to.  So he is allergic to something that is very uncommon and it will be very hard to narrow it down, if we ever can.  There is a possibility that he can grow out of this or it might get worse..only time will tell.   He ended up having these hive for just over 6 weeks and nothing major since then only a few spots here and there. 

To reward him for his brave behavior at the doctors I took him to Chuck e Cheese all by himself and then we ate some shrimp cocktail with his brothers!