Poison Oak?

On Wednesday night, Emily went up to her room to do homework. She came down about a half of an hour or so later and complained that her face was itchy. It looked like hives to me, which wouldn't be an uncommon thing for her (she is allergic to almost every environmental thing you could be allergic to and has had reactions randomly before). We were out of Benedryl (DOH!) but she had just taken her nightly dose of Claritin so that would have helped regardless.

Anyway, the next morning, the "hives" were still there, and looked even slightly worse, but also more like acne in a way than hives. It would be a little weird for her to go up to her room with a clear face, then in a half hour's time, come down with five or six pimples, all concentrated on the same spot of her face. On Friday morning, they were still there, and she made a trip to the nurse at school who said it looked like poison oak. This would make a little more sense to me if she had actually been outside on Wednesday, beyond going in and out of our house and the school building. I guess it's possible that she was exposed on another day and the rash didn't occur until Wednesday. This is what it looks like:






It seems to have stayed the same over the weekend as far as how it looks. I am debating bringing her to the doctor if it doesn't improve at all. if it is in fact poison oak, the doctor would probably put her on a steroid to get rid of it.