They are driving me literally insane.
DS 13 asthmatic spends his whole entire life doing huge shouting type massive gargantuan sneezes, over and over and over again, they are non stop. Imagine a big dog barking and barking non stop - that's what his sneezing is like and they're that loud too. And non stop sniffing up snot sniff sniff sniff sniff, his nose is like a tap of never ending cattarh. Jesus, the arguments we have about his nose. "Freddy blow your nose!!!!" "No" "BLOW YOUR NOSE!!!" "No" "Freddy your constant sniffing and snorting is driving everyone in the house mad - BLOW YOUR NOSE". "Nooooo!" "Freddy BLOW YOUR NOSE!". He finally blows his nose, blows and blows and blows, as much as he blows it out the snot instantaneously refills, he blows, snot refills, he blows, snot refills. Immediately goes back to sneezing and sniffing and snorting and says "See, this is why I don't blow my nose, there's no point whatsoever, it's pouring out of my nose straight after no matter how much I blow it". This goes on all day, all night. Kids at school turn round at their desks or nudge him and say "Mate, blow your nose". Sitting round the table for dinner is appalling, my other DC shout "Ughh, it's putting us off our food! He's sneezing over our food! (Even though he covers his mouth and nose as much as he can with his elbow or a hankie) his snot is so loud it's disgusting!" He sits there looking dejected at the table.
I am at my wits end.
It goes on all summer because of pollen. Now it's October so there's no pollen but it's still the same level of relentless 100 decibel repetitive sneezing and gallons of catarrh pouring in to his nose. It will go on all winter too, just like it has the past 2 winters. Then all spring. It is year round every year.
We're dusting everywhere, cleaning the floors non stop, pulling out his bed non stop to clean under it, I've removed curtains, got rid of carpet and rugs, bought hypoallergenic mattress covers/pillow covers/duvet, boil wash at 90 degrees his bedding every few days, OMG the work it's creating is exhausting me on top of everything else I have to do. Mometasone and beconase nasal sprays don't work at all. He takes 180mg Fexofenadine daily which is an adult dose for treating hives - you'd think if it treats hives in an adult then it would sort out a 13 year olds non stop sneezing and running cattarh....but no, it doesn't touch it. GP said he can't have any higher dose than that.
I just don't know what to do.
It's making him really depressed and it's sheer HELL to live with.
It's driving the whole family insane but me especially as I spend most time with him.
Can anyone at all give me any help or experience?!