ANyone started hayfever medication for thei LOs yet?

[smoggie]

Given our unseasonal weather I just wondered whether to start ds1's (4) daily cetirizine now. He seems permanently bunged up and was quite itchy in the garden today...just wondered if there were disadvantages to him taking it for potentially 5+ months?

Ooh and permit me a related rant will you - he stayed at my parents house last night for the first time in ages, but she forgot about his eczema and put Johnsons bubble bath in for him...he arrived back home today with sore itchy knees, elbows and back - we've managed to keep him totally eczema free for 9 months by meticulously applying his creams and avoiding all perfumed stuff. Arghhhh. She did know but just forgot!! Rant over, thank you!

DD has had a tickly cough and sniffly nose for last 2-3 weeks. Starting to think it might be her hayfever kicking in. Time to get the piriton out I guess.

I think I'll put his prescription in tomorrow. Poor mite - I thought he'd had a cold for the last few weeks but like you I think it's the hayfever instead.

I just came over here to ask something along similar lines.

Ds2 started with what i thought was a cold over a week ago now. I have left it, thinking it was a cold, but his nose is forever streaming and now he is coughing a little, nice and loose though)

How can I tell if he really does have a cold, or has hayfever? I don't want to keep dosing him up with piriton (all we have right now) if it really is a cold. Decisions, decisions!!

Mine are both back on it, started last week.