Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Taylor's allergy testing

Today I took Taylor in for allergy testing as his zyrtec is not working well anymore. Well we were quite surprised with the results. I know Tara has seen how they allergy test but if you havent been there for it, it was something else. They had him lay on his back and marked a grid of dots with a purple pen then next to each dot they "pricked" his with a needle with an allergen inside. Total in all was somewhere between 36-40 pricks. You then wait 15 minutes and see if he develops a wheal or a spot that looks like a mosquito bite on top of a red welt or hive. Well he had reactions to 3/4 of the all the shots. I tried to get a picture for you all but didnt have much luck with my camera. Anyways the verdict is that he is allergic to almost all of the trees, grasses, and weeds. He is NOT allergic to inside allergens (cat, dog, cockroach, dust mites), molds or foods. We are testing him with blood to check his pineapple reaction as he has had bad reactions to eating it. That poor child had hives all over his back and he was NOT allowed to scratch them. He will begin getting allergy shots now as his allergies all ranked 3 or 4. (4 is the worst reaction). He is also taking zyrtec, two different nasal sprays, and patanol (for his eyes), in addition to the allergy shots he will get upto twice a week. He also was given an epipen for his pineapple allergy as his reactions have been bad in the past. He has one the epipens for school as well because he likes to eat school lunches and they serve pineapple. Bryan thinks we should take Taylor and Annaliese and put them in a big bubble and leave them there.

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