more reactions and diagnosis this week with the kids....

December 11, 2006

My 10 yr.old daughter is allergic to latex and broke out in hives

from fixing an angel she broke with liquid nails. I gave her

benadry and hydrocortizone/anti-itching cream and that helped. I

called the company too to see if there was any correlation between

that,latex,and other things shes reacted to but they didnt know.

They were very kind and sympathetic though and did call back twice

to see how she was doing during the day. She broke out and itched

like crazy to a sheet of vinly put behind as a photo backdrop at

church. How is that related to latex? Or do I have to eliminate

vinyl now? Two others,my 4 & 8 yr olds were diagnosed with asthma

Thurs. I thought it was a cough that just wouldnt go away,well it is

now isnt it? I came home with l0 prescriptions for those

two,breathing treatments and have 4 more kids to get seen this week

for same thing. Dr.said it goes along with allergies.I feel awful

because I didnt catch it after having it myself. I have an asthma

attack if theres one balloon in the room. I guess thats why she is

the dr. and not me! We have an ecoquest air cleaner which does work

great for us. After the first week the boys' nosebleeds stopped and

much less sneezing going on. For a quick recap:Our family has

Celiac disease,we've been gluten free for 4 yrs,I developed many

autoimmune diseases and complications from it going undiagnosed for

so long,including mcs. We got rid of all chemicals,everything is

fragrance free,got rid of carpet,cloth furniture,then finally the

house because I couldnt breathe with the neighbors'dryer sheets

smell,fires,and such. We've been on a 5 acre kinda secluded house

and a lot of things are better but we still react,just quicker to

unfamiliar chemicals. We're considering relocating to where the air

is much cleaner and a little bit colder to kill off the bad stuff in

the air. scorecard.org:put zip in and it tells any

contaminents,chemicals in air,land,water. Ours is in the red

zone,where we're looking is in the green. I feel like this is

getting a bit much. In addition to the celiac,they all have

different food allergies,epi pens and it gets a bit much sometimes!

Anyone else go through anything like this? Anyone have any

suggestions? Thank you all very much. Lynne(central florida)

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