My wife is a nurse and she recommends benadryl. This definately sounds like an allergic reaction, benadryl hopefully will help. Be careful, it does make you sleepy too.

Good Luck

I have severe allergies myself, and spent about 28 years being treated by one of the best allergists in the U.S. One thing I learned is that you can develop new allergies at any time during your life. Often it's because you're having an allergic reaction to one thing while there is something else overwhelming in your area.

For example, my allergies were mostly molds, mildews, dust, and pollen. For a long time I was not allowed to have yeast bread. But after a couple of years of treatment it seemed I'd suddenly outgrown my allergies (it wasn't; it was something I was eating that was holding the symptoms in check) so my mom relaxed those restrictions. I didn't have actual food allergies; just allergies to molds and mildews in processing, so we had to grow most of our food. I was *that* allergic.

So I went on a long trip where I was in a mildewy, dusty old bus with our youth group. After several hours, I got out the lunch my mom had packed (we were driving through the night). It was peanut butter on homemade whole wheat, plus celery and a peach. My throat was already feeling scratchy. I ate the sandwich and started wheezing. I ate the celery and peach and started feeling horrible. I'd never had a food allergy so I didn't know what a reaction would feel like. When we stopped for gas, the bad feeling was overwhelming, and I ended up upchucking in the bathroom.

I didn't seem to have any problem with those foods later, but apparently that incident made something go wacko in my immune system.

I craved those foods from then on, especially in pregnancy. When my son was a year old, I met my husband for lunch at an Indian restaurant. I had something called "Indian pickle", and I immediately knew something was wrong on swallowing it. My throat burned; my stomach felt awful; my hands started bloating, and worst of all, my throat started closing up. My allergies, nearly gone at 18, had slowly returned after I left home.

After the trip to the ER, my allergist ran tests on both the food and on me to try to figure out this new and weird twist to my allergies.

His findings? I'd developed 5 new allergies, my first food allergies, all rather mild taken individually: celery, peaches, and unidentified legume being the top 3. Yup. Just what had led to me vomiting 13 years before. And the other two were foods I'd heartily disliked growing up: carrots and blueberries.

It was then he explained that people develop new allergies throughout their lives, because the mechanism that the body uses to recognize foreign invaders is broken. It's like an ID badge reader that's all screwed up and sets off alarms that results in the same S.W.A.T. team reaction that terrorists would.

If you are developing new allergies, you should really get tested to find out what they are. I really didn't know I could, or that I would make the jump from airborne allergies that made me wheeze and made my sinuses fill up, to food allergies that would make my whole body swell and my skin itch. I also didn't know until my second child was diagnosed with eczema at 12 months old that there is a link between family members that have allergic asthma (like me) to eczema (like her).

Benedryl gel or allergy eyedrops may help a little in the short term, but the longer you let your allergies get out of hand the worse getting them under control again can be, I know from experience. It could also be some kind of infection. Your best bet is to see a doctor.