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Sounds like an environmental allergen which can be hard to diagnose as the general RAST test they do only tests for a limited number of allergens unless there is something specific you suspect.
no asthma. never been allergy tested because has never shown any allergy syptoms before-apart from a couple of random episodes of hives-which only lasted 30 mins and then disappeared.
ds has always had eczema-since birth so we know he is a bit that way inclined immunologically.
for the past n months he has been sniffing all the time. he always sounds snuffly.took him to the doc who gave him anti histamines to take for a month. we managed 2 weeks and had to stop because he had such violent diarrohea as a side effect.
the snuffles have got worse. he sounds like he permanently has a cold and is always wiping his nose. last week his eyes were scarlet and his nostrils too. that has gone over the past day or three-he's back to being snuffly. his eczema is up and this morning he was ripping at his legs. he has some small red spots on his leg and the whole area round them was bright red. cold water calmed it down. he has another patch the same on his arm.
wondering what to do-don't want gp to just fob us off with anti histamines again iyswim.
