The Life of Matthew

A couple of weeks ago we had fish fingers for dinner. Daddy wanted to find another way to get fish inside me (I like tuna but that’s about it) and so thought that fish fingers would do the trick. Boy was he right; I loved them! I had six or seven of the golden beauties and finished dinner full and happy.

The following day Mummy noticed some spots on my arms and chest. A quick search on Google of the symptoms led her to believe that I had heat rash. It was hot, I had spots on my arms and chest only, I didn’t had a fever so heat rash I had. I was put into cooler clothes and carried on with my morning.

By the next nappy change the spots had gotten worse and were now on my legs. Heat rash doesn’t cause spots on the legs so it was off to the clinic as Mummy and Daddy didn’t want to take any chances and instinct was saying “Doctor”.

It was a bank holiday here in Spain and I’ve got to tell you the service was excellent. The medical centre was open for a start, there was only one person ahead of us at reception and we were called in to see the doctor even before we had a chance to sit down to wait. The doctor was very nice. He had a look at me and had a few questions for Mummy and Daddy and very quickly made his diagnosis. You guessed it. A food allergy. To fish fingers!

A three day course of antihistamines soon sorted the reaction out and I was back to my normal self although I have to say that I didn’t notice any problems or suffer any discomfort. I  have to have an allergy test soon as my baby doctor explained that the first allergic reaction often doesn’t cause major problems but subsequent reactions might.

We learnt three things from this episode: Looking on the Internet doesn’t always give the right answer, if in doubt see the doctor and fish fingers are off the menu!

Until next time, bye bye.