RE: Sudafed, allergy meds safe with mito? - Thanks

[Guest guest]

Thanks everyone for the info. I'm glad to know that sudafed

increases heart rate since Sheldon's is always so high anyway, I don't

think we'll try it. His resting heart rate when he wasn't feeling well

yesterday was 138 and it's usually up around there when he's sick. I

remember that he had a bad reaction to sudafed or benadryl when he was

a baby and haven't tried either one for him since then, I just feel

like we should do something about this constantly stuffy nose and

sinus infections.

Good to hear that so many people use phenergan, they always want

to use it in the hospital, maybe we'll try it next time.

Suhad, I think of you and your girls often.

I cannot speak for all mito meds but

I will tell you that both Samya and

Leanna were on massive allergy meds. In fact Leanna was on nasonex,

flonase,

Claritin, allegro, singulair for the last 2 years nonstop and none of

them

ever affected her and her mito doc knew she was on them and was

not

concerned. Phenergan was also used a lot for nausea through the years

and

was fine for both girls. The mito doc did say that gentamycin (if

given in

liquid form, not eye drops) was not good and he always told me to stay

away

from any cold meds that had pseudonephendrine because it causes rapid

hart

beat which makes the body work too hard and can make it hard for the

cells

to make energy. I use to give it onlywhen very desperate from

congestion

although it never seemed to affect her much. That is all I know. Hope

that

helps.

Suhad Haddad -- Mom to Samya (Died 12-10-02 of Leigh's

Synd.) & Leanna

(died 3-20-05)

Samya's Memorial Site: www.samyahaddad.com/.org/.net

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Sudafed, allergy meds safe with mito?

Sheldon has another sinus infection and I'm trying to figure out

what

we can do to prevent these almost-constant sinus infections. I

have

always been reluctant to give him any meds that I don't know are

safe

for mito. Not to mention that I hate the thought of having to give

him more meds than he's already on.

Does anyone out there know if sudafed is ok with mito? What about

allergy meds? While we're on the subject, what about things like

phenergan for nausea? Docs always mention anti-nausea meds when

he's

in the hospital and I never know whether he should have them or

not

so we've avoided them so far.

I believe he gets the sinus infections from a dust mite allergy

and

we do hot washes on his bedding but we have a rug in our room and

our

mattress isn't covered yet...

Thanks,

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