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New with question about allergies
Hi - I'm new to this board. I'm a SAHM with 2 little girls, one is 21
months and one is 7 weeks. My question is about my toddler. The air quality has been really bad here lately and for awhile now, I've been noticing how she rubs her eyes alot. Yesterday she started complaining about it, saying "eyes, eyes" and then again today she's complaining about it. I called her doctor's office and talked to the nurse who said to try Benadryl, which I did just today, so we'll see how it goes with that. Has anyone experienced allergies like this with their toddler? She doesn't have any other noticable symptoms that I can tell. I can't imagine what else it could be other than allergies. She doesn't have anything in her eyes, and allergies run in my family on both sides. I have seasonal allergies and am allergic to soap, fragrance, eye makeup, all sorts of things. My DH has eczema really bad on his hands and arms, and my 7 week old is lactose intolerant, so this type of thing is not foreign to our family, to say the least. Does this sound like allergies to anyone? Or is there something else that anyone can think of? I wear glasses, but my prescription is very very light and my husband has perfect vision, as does most of his family. I just want to help my poor little girl! Thanks! Beth SAHM to Angelina (8/4/02) and Isabella (3/7/04) |
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Hi - Your toddler may well have seasonal allergies. See if the benadryl helps. If it does, talk to your ped. about trying out claritin (or one of its less expensive generics) or zyrtec (available by prescription). You might also enquire about eye drops (for symptomatic relief), although it can be quite hard to get the drops where they work on a non-cooperative toddler. Your 7-week old, by the way, is almost certainly NOT lactose intolerant. It's vanishingly rare for lactose intolerance to occur in the first year of life. It is, however, very common for infants to have an intolerance to, or even allergy to, cow's milk PROTEIN. In either event, breastfeeding is the best nutrition, and soy formula is the next best choice. A final thing you might try is to look at the book "Is This Your Child?" by Dr. Doris Rapp. It's probably at your local library, and is an easy, informative read. It has to do with allergies (various types) in infants and children. Good luck! --Beth Kevles http://web.mit.edu/kevles/www/nomilk.html -- a page for the milk-allergic Disclaimer: Nothing in this message should be construed as medical advice. Please consult with your own medical practicioner. NOTE: No email is read at my MIT address. Use the AOL one if you would like me to reply. |
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New with question about allergies
Some pollen is so large that it is irritating to the eyes even if you're not
allergic to it. Pine pollen, in particular, is very large and depending on where you are and the prevalence of pine trees, that could be the problem. Leigh "Beth Kevles" wrote in message ... Hi - Your toddler may well have seasonal allergies. See if the benadryl helps. If it does, talk to your ped. about trying out claritin (or one of its less expensive generics) or zyrtec (available by prescription). You might also enquire about eye drops (for symptomatic relief), although it can be quite hard to get the drops where they work on a non-cooperative toddler. Your 7-week old, by the way, is almost certainly NOT lactose intolerant. It's vanishingly rare for lactose intolerance to occur in the first year of life. It is, however, very common for infants to have an intolerance to, or even allergy to, cow's milk PROTEIN. In either event, breastfeeding is the best nutrition, and soy formula is the next best choice. A final thing you might try is to look at the book "Is This Your Child?" by Dr. Doris Rapp. It's probably at your local library, and is an easy, informative read. It has to do with allergies (various types) in infants and children. Good luck! --Beth Kevles http://web.mit.edu/kevles/www/nomilk.html -- a page for the milk-allergic Disclaimer: Nothing in this message should be construed as medical advice. Please consult with your own medical practicioner. NOTE: No email is read at my MIT address. Use the AOL one if you would like me to reply. |
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bshadder wrote: *Has anyone experienced allergies like this with their toddler? She *doesn't have any other noticable symptoms that I can tell. I can't My 3.5 year old has terrible allergies. In fact, his allergist/pulmonologist has gone so far as to tell me when we first saw him when my son was 3 years old that "kids this young don't have seasonal allergies" (he said this prior to the skin testing which proved my son has allergies) and then "gosh, I've never seen allergies this bad in a kid this young and so early in the season!" (he said this just about two weeks ago about my son who was already taking the max dose of zyrtec and intranasal steroids and still suffering ). And this allergist is well respected in his field and very very experienced! *Does this sound like allergies to anyone? Or is there something else It certainly could be, although it is early for her to have them. The first year my son displayed allergy symptoms was the summer before he turned two years old, and his initial symptoms were simply increasing crabbiness and clinginess, progressing to undereye circles, red itchy oozy eyes, sneezing, difficulty breathing, and ultimately sinus infections and pneumonia! But at first it was just the crabby/clinginess and it was hard to figure out what was going on. -- hillary israeli vmd http://www.hillary.net "uber vaccae in quattuor partes divisum est." not-so-newly minted veterinarian-at-large |
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New with question about allergies
Thanks for the book title - I'll definitely check it out. I think our
family is one big allergen! I checked out your milk-allergic page - interesting and very informative. I am not positive about the lactose intolerance in our 7 week old medically speaking, but in my experience, cutting out the lactose has made a huge difference for her. I am not able to breastfeed, so we had her on regular milk-based formula. She exhibited classic lactose intolerance symptoms - excessive gas, red ring-rash around her diaper area, excessive spitting up (and our first was a spitter-upper - this was different), gut-wrenching stomach aches where she'd arch her back in pain, wouldn't sleep at night and would just whimper all night long, and she hadn't gained back her birth weight by her 2 week check-up. So we switched her to soy. Her diaper rash disappeared within one day. She started gaining weight like a champ. But she was so gassy she couldn't sleep at night and would again whimper all night long. We took her to the doctor. She was diagnosed with reflux and given a prescription for Zantac. I have read that Zantac can cause insomnia and irritability in infants and I didn't want to go that route because I wasn't 100% convinced she needed to be medicated. The doctor said to go ahead and experiment with different formulas - so we tried Good Start. Bad move - within minutes of it hitting her stomach she was projectile vomitting. So then we tried Enfamil LactoFree. It's like we have a new baby. She can sleep at night without whimpering, no stomach aches, no excessive gas, great weight gain, much less spitting up, but the thing I really noticed was her demeanor - she had a happy look on her face that had never been there before. She looked pleasant and before she always looked like she was in pain, even on the soy formula. So that's why we think lactose intolerance. Since we've had her on the lactose free, all of her reflux symptoms have totally disappeared. I'm so glad we didn't go the Zantac route. My mom is lactose intolerant, and so is one of my uncles, and my sister is completely dairy intolerant - both lactose and milk proteins. So I don't know if our baby is actually lactose intolerant in the medical sense, but in the practical sense, she sure is doing better on the lactose free formula. Thanks for the info - I appreciate it. Beth SAHM to Angelina (8/4/02) and Isabella (3/7/04) (Beth Kevles) wrote in message ... Hi - Your toddler may well have seasonal allergies. See if the benadryl helps. If it does, talk to your ped. about trying out claritin (or one of its less expensive generics) or zyrtec (available by prescription). You might also enquire about eye drops (for symptomatic relief), although it can be quite hard to get the drops where they work on a non-cooperative toddler. Your 7-week old, by the way, is almost certainly NOT lactose intolerant. It's vanishingly rare for lactose intolerance to occur in the first year of life. It is, however, very common for infants to have an intolerance to, or even allergy to, cow's milk PROTEIN. In either event, breastfeeding is the best nutrition, and soy formula is the next best choice. A final thing you might try is to look at the book "Is This Your Child?" by Dr. Doris Rapp. It's probably at your local library, and is an easy, informative read. It has to do with allergies (various types) in infants and children. Good luck! --Beth Kevles http://web.mit.edu/kevles/www/nomilk.html -- a page for the milk-allergic Disclaimer: Nothing in this message should be construed as medical advice. Please consult with your own medical practicioner. NOTE: No email is read at my MIT address. Use the AOL one if you would like me to reply. |
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