Can anyone recommend an antihistamine I could use for DS2 who has ASD (he's 4 tomorrow)? It's got to be gluten and dairy free and without aspartame or any baddies like that.
The reason I ask is that he's getting awful eczema around his mouth. It's no longer anywhere else on his body. The only time it clears up completely is when we use his Ventolin inhaler. So I was wondering (in a vague, totally non-medical kind of way) whether an antihistamine would have the same effect. The dr prescribed Eumovate, but it doesn't work anything like as well as the inhaler (which I obviously only want to use when he's wheezy).
He suffered from severe eczema as a baby but it had cleared up by the time he was two. Then we went to BIBIC(British Institute for Brain Injured Children) for an assessment and started altering his diet. The eczema came back as soon as we removed yeast and hasn't really gone away since (even though we've now added yeast back in). He is gf/cf, also egg, apple, citrus, tomato and (as far as poss) additive free. I have a horrible feeling that the culprit might be soya, but I'm loath to remove it as the poor boy has a restricted enough diet as it is.
Any thoughts welcome.