Do stop up this evening if you've the time. Unless this was a day when the symptoms seemed less severe. Given what you say, I would prefer to see you in the evening of a day when you've felt the itching manifest itself, and I'd hope to examine you before you bathe or change any of your clothing on such a day.
I find it unlikely that it's anything to do with the cleansing processes the elves use as one would expect the effect to be more evenly dispersed. It's highly unlikely that you should be the only one with bedbugs if that were the source, and in any case, I didn't think it looked like bites or stings when I examined you the first time.
I suppose it could be a slow-developing reaction to the transfigured ingredients in our diet here. I expect you've not been accustomed to rely so much on transfigured fare?
The trouble with allergies, as I said before, is that they are not always immediate: a body may go on for some time, fending off the irritation before it suddenly succumbs to the botheration.
And you've truly not purchased any new garments--hosiery or shoes, particularly?--or ordered in new bedding? (I know some find the school-issued sheets to be less than satisfactory. It would be understandable.)
Or. Well, while I agree that it seems most like an allergic irritation, there's always a chance that it's something more sinister. Have you, by any chance, received any gifts recently that we ought to check for tampering or malign influence?
If you wish, you could use the fire to check before coming up. I should hate to have you stop up only to find me in the midst of some emergency. You needn't worry, however, that you'll deprive me of sleep. It is simply a fact of the caregiving profession that one must be able to respond when need requires. I'm blessed with a constitution that demands less sleep than most, it seems, and, of course, over the years I've weaned myself from wanting more.
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Re: Private message to Poppy Pomfrey
Date: 2012-12-11 02:51 am (UTC)I find it unlikely that it's anything to do with the cleansing processes the elves use as one would expect the effect to be more evenly dispersed. It's highly unlikely that you should be the only one with bedbugs if that were the source, and in any case, I didn't think it looked like bites or stings when I examined you the first time.
I suppose it could be a slow-developing reaction to the transfigured ingredients in our diet here. I expect you've not been accustomed to rely so much on transfigured fare?
The trouble with allergies, as I said before, is that they are not always immediate: a body may go on for some time, fending off the irritation before it suddenly succumbs to the botheration.
And you've truly not purchased any new garments--hosiery or shoes, particularly?--or ordered in new bedding? (I know some find the school-issued sheets to be less than satisfactory. It would be understandable.)
Or. Well, while I agree that it seems most like an allergic irritation, there's always a chance that it's something more sinister. Have you, by any chance, received any gifts recently that we ought to check for tampering or malign influence?
If you wish, you could use the fire to check before coming up. I should hate to have you stop up only to find me in the midst of some emergency. You needn't worry, however, that you'll deprive me of sleep. It is simply a fact of the caregiving profession that one must be able to respond when need requires. I'm blessed with a constitution that demands less sleep than most, it seems, and, of course, over the years I've weaned myself from wanting more.