A few days ago I mentioned we are suffering from allergies. Well I was wrong. We all just continued to get worse and I noticed on the news that there wasn't any pollen in the air, so it couldn't be allergies. We decided to take one of the kids in to the doctor and tell her we all have the same symptoms and find out what we have. I just couldn't see spending $75.......our co-pay times 5.....and find out it is just a virus and all we can do is ride it out. If it turned out to be something that needed antibiotics, then I would take them in if necessary. It turned out we have a generic virus.
We decided to take Austin and kill two birds with one stone. Austin is on Ritalin-LA and lately it hasn't been working. We don't give it to him during the summer on a regular basis but when we have lately we haven't seen any change at all in his behavior like we have in the past. So the doctor changed his medicine to Focalin XR. It is supposed to last longer than the Ritalin. The Ritalin, when it worked, lasted only 8 hours and the Focalin is supposed to last 12 hours. That will be helpful with him in school this year. We will need that medicine to last beyond school hours for homework and it will be lasting through his after school activities (Boy Scouts and baseball).
Now for the confusion part.......Yesterday Sean found and ate two donut holes, which of course contain eggs and wheat! So I braced myself for a reaction and it never happened! I am so confused as to how he can eat that and nothing happened and yet only a week ago he reacted to the wheat in something he ate for supper. I know kids can outgrow food allergies, but that fast?!? Don't get me wrong, I am NOT complaining, just confused. He goes to the allergist on September 10th for an in office trial with eggs. I will talk to her about that when we are there.
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wow! i hope he really did outgrow his allergy already! that would be great!
Maybe he isn't really allergic to wheat after all? You could just keep a list of specific foods that make him sick to avoid and test a few others. Might be a pain, but isn't it great to know he can eat donuts!! When you guys finally make it down here I'll accompany you to the Pei Wei test! Maybe the allergist will have a clue to what's really going on.
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