Son's allergy, help!

[EmmaJW1976]

DS1 who is 8 has terrible allergies to dogs, cats, dust, hayfever etc etc.

Just recently he's started sneezing, coughing and rubbing his eyes whenever he goes into his bedroom. He has recently had a new pine bed but I think it started just before this. In the morning he wakes up looking like he's rubbed his eyes on a cat!!

I am totally a loss as to what this could be?

He has no soft toys in there, he has a hypoallergic mattress cover on, it is damp dusted and vaccuumed daily. I have got rid of the armchair for a blow up wipe clean one.

Really am stuck. Anyone help??

Sorry to hear about your son's allergies.

Could he be allergic to the new pine bed? Maybe the varnish or something like that? Have you changed your washing powder etc?

Allergy to varnish is a normal allergy, also if bed is new, it could be still giving off dust in the joints, which can be very allergic, or allergic to the glue which sticks it together,

(I should know, I teach dt and have terrible allergy to wood dust)

Have you had any new carpets lately? That can cause allergy.

Mould spores are rampant at this time of year I think.

Can't think of anything else apart from the bed. And as a fellow sufferer suspect that is your culprit. Also I am allergic to pine needles, so am becoming more convinced the bed has to go...

Allergy to varnish is a normal allergy, also if bed is new, it could be still giving off dust in the joints, which can be very allergic, or allergic to the glue which sticks it together,

(I should know, I teach dt and have terrible allergy to wood dust)

Have you had any new carpets lately? That can cause allergy.

Mould spores are rampant at this time of year I think.

Can't think of anything else apart from the bed. And as a fellow sufferer suspect that is your culprit. Also I am allergic to pine needles, so am becoming more convinced the bed has to go...

Yes, the bed is new. He has had a new pine bed before, when he was 18 months. He is 8 now so I suppose this allergy could have since begun.

The bed isn't varnished, so not that.

No new carpets either.

But if the bed is new and not varnished, then any pine dust in the joints will be floating around. The not varnished is the important thing, as the dust won't be sealed in, nor will the glue for that matter

Pine dust makes my eyes itch like mad, cough all the time, wheeze, and will give me eczema.

No, not a new mattress as he had a new one earlier this year.

He had a pine bed before, he had it for about 6 years with no probs but maybe that was varnished.

Thing is, I am sure he had the puffy eyes, sneezing etc a couple of times before the new bed because a couple of weeks ago his teacher asked if he'd been crying when he went into school!

I wake up wheezing and sneezing every morning too, have done all my life, but this is actually waking him up and he looks so miserable

I tend to get this when the heating has come on, after being off all summer. No matter how hard i clean the radiators dust gets trapped in the tiny little crevaces.

Good luck with your search.

It could be that you know.
I turned it on for the first time last week.

I know the heating affects him so I have kept it low in his room and his window open during the day.

Still, the radiator dust could be a culprit!

Thank you!