{"id":191,"date":"2009-08-06T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/06\/a-minor-medical-emergency\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T23:09:00","slug":"a-minor-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/a-minor-medical-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"A Minor Medical Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,255);\"><strong>Sorry folks, no fun blog post tonight!&nbsp; I will give you this word of warning though.&nbsp; If your kids all have diagnosed ear infections and sinus infections and you&#8217;ve been feeling really run down and miserable yourself and you have amoxycillin leftover from when you had that sinus infection last month&#8230;. do not even think about self-diagnosing and taking it!<\/p>\n<p>I just got back from the emergency room after breaking out with a beet red, burning, itching, painful, maddening head-to-toe (starting at the head!) rash.&nbsp; Within 15 minutes of taking the pill, my face and chest looked like I had a blistering sunburn.&nbsp; The nurses in the ER actually thought I was burned.<\/p>\n<p>One hour, three shots and a whole lot of icy wet towels later, they let me go home with some medication and instructions to never again take a penicillin family drug.<\/p>\n<p>Wow!&nbsp; That was really, really unpleasant!&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/ehealthforum.com\/health\/topic13021.html\">this site<\/a>, I have discovered &quot;the poor man&#8217;s mono test&quot; and that anybody with mono who takes a med like amoxycillin will develop this rash.&nbsp; Some seem to have a harder time with it than others, but most of these poor folks had it for days or weeks.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t imagine having it for more than a minute.&nbsp; It burns!<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I have pills to take and am heading to my own doctor in the morning.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be back with something fun for you tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>~Alicia<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry folks, no fun blog post tonight!&nbsp; I will give you this word of warning though.&nbsp; If your kids all have diagnosed ear infections and sinus infections and you&#8217;ve been feeling really run down and miserable yourself and you have amoxycillin leftover from when you had that sinus infection last month&#8230;. do not even think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[121,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}