Hi
My 8 year old is allergic to dust mites, cats, dogs and grass pollen. (dustmites since he was 2 and the others since last year)
We've had times when his behaviour has been really bad - aggressive, defiant and generally very wound up and ready to explode into a tantrum at the slightest thing. Last summer he was on antihistamines and I only started to put 2 and 2 together towards the end of the season - I told his allergy dr and she said that it wasn't unheard of so this year wouldn't give him antihistamines but a nasal spray instead (budesonide 50mcg - 2 sprays each nostril per day). He's been on that about a month now and his behaviour has been slowly getting worse again - defiant, tantrummy and almost has tics like he can't stop moving his finger or wiggling his jaw. I couldn't understand what had happened over the last month to bring this on but now am starting to think it's coinciding with this medication. I checked and it's a corticosteroid - when he was a lot younger he was given bentelan tablets to take for the asthma and the effect was pretty dramatic - he was literally bouncing off the walls. Can corticosteroids in the form of a nasal spray have the same effect as a tablet if taken over the same period of time? He's also had inhalers on and off since he was 2 as he was asthmatic (fortunately he seems to be growing out of that).
So I'm thinking he's quite sensitive to medications - could this be the case? Anyone else have similar experiences? I do also realise that these "episodes" of behaviour could be due to other things and to a certain extent are just his character but it's such a shame if he's basically getting in bother all the time when it's not really his fault.
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Allergy Medications and Behaviour?
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LubyLu2000 · 04/05/2015 13:10
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