3.5 Year Old with Allergies

Zyrtec as well as claritan have the fast melts. You just place on the tongue and it dissolves fast. Give it a try. It will dissolve so fast he wont have time to puke!

My daughter started w/ allergies when she was about 3 years old. At 3.5, she started on children's Clariton. She stayed on it (it helped but wasn't quite enough) until about a month ago (she's 4.5 now). The pediatric allergist put her on Clarinex in the am and Singulair in the pm after perfoming allergy testing. For when she has escalated symptoms, we have eye drops and nasal spray.

Ask your doctor if giving him locally made honey will help. I tried it, and it has helped me. If he doesn't like to take it in a teaspoon, put some in water and lemon, like a lemonade, but instead of sugar, the honey is the sweetener.

I feel for you. I have been in your boat many times trying to coax kids to take meds. only to have them gag and throw it all up. I have found the chewable type meds or the dissolving meds work the best. We found some medicine, and I can't think of the name, but it was for allergy symptoms and they were thin strips that dissolve in your mouth...kids all loved them. I had to convince them it is NOT candy and you don't go dipping into it for every little cough or sneeze.

Good luck my dear!!

Target makes a Benadryl tablet that is a chewable. I tell my son it is a like grape candy and there has never been a battle. I believe they may make a Claritin tablet that is the same. Tablets always work better for my son...less drama!

I would go to a Homeopathic doctor. I use a great one in Livermore. He got rid of my allergies!

Hi T.,

Our families allergies have gone away. We did several things.

We detoxed (removed everything synthetic) our home so that our immune systems would not be bombarded with things that they are not built to deal with.

We started on an absorbable multivitamin to add nutrients so that our body would have what it needed to do what it was supposed to.

We also are involved with maintenance chiropractic care (principled, specific upper cervical care) to keep the neurological system working right.

Most of the time we don't have any problems with anything. If it's an overly active pollen season, sometimes one of us has to add some elderberry extract to the routine. It works specifically to build the immune system.

If you're interested in trying this out, I'll be glad to go into detail for you. Its made a WORLD of difference in our lives!

M.

Have you tried honey? Just a teaspoonful a day of honey (made from your area) helps people to build their immune system & helps with allergies. My FIL always have AWFUL allergies...would sometimes have 2 allergy shots before summer was over. He tried it & his allergies progressively have gotten better (until he moved a couple years ago). So, ask your doctor about raw honey...if your son isn't allergic to it, then it may help!

Hi!

Last year, when my son was 5 he had very bad environmental allergies. We gave him the follow natural antihistamine. I would just break open the capsule and mix it in with cereal, juice, a smoothie, applesauce, etc. I've used and my mom has used it. It has worked for all of us. However, natural antihistamines don't work quickly like medicines do. It may take a few days to take effect.

http://www.naturessunshine.com/us/product/histablock-90-c...

Also, your son my also have food allergies. My son does. You can test for food allergies by doing the pulse test. Here's how it works. Take your child's pulse before he eats anything in the morning. Then, give him the suspected food and only that food. Then, take his pulse 15, 30 and 60 minutes after consuming the food. If his pulse goes up more than 10 beats per minute, he is allergic.

Hope this helps!

First of all, you need to determine what your son is allergic too, and then try to practice complete avoidance. If he doesn't come in contact with the allergens, he won't have symptoms. I suspect this will be difficult to sort out on your own, since it sounds like he's allergic to aeroallergens (pollen, dust mites, cockroach feces, and animal dander are primary common allergens).

Allergy is a disease of titer, and the more allergens you're exposed to, the greater the likelihood and possibly severity of the response. If you can remove at least one or two of the things your son's allergic to, you may be able to reduce the response. If you know he has food allergies (most kids with allergy to airborne allergens have one or more food allergies), practice avoidance of those foods -- that will also lower the allergen titer. Also, I've seen a new product in pharmacies that is smeared under the nose. Supposedly, it acts as a kind of glue for trapping allergen molecules before they can be inhaled and cause a reaction. Of course, this won't help if your son's skin is sensitive to contact with the allergens.

In any case, if you haven't been already, a trip to a pediatric allergist is in order to help you sort this out. The allergist will more than likely want to do skin testing, but you should know that a simple blood draw for specific IgE has been shown to be just as sensitive and specific as skin testing. Allergists don't get reimbursed for blood tests, though, and skin testing is their bread and butter because they do it in the office, so they tend to push it. If you want to, you can check out the patient education website at Siemens.com for more information. Siemens (which is one of the leading medical diagnostics companies) also has a kid's book written in conjunction with Disney, which you can get to through the website. The web address is very long, so I've converted it to a tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/23zhd3g

It's very important that you get your son's allergies under control. Childhood respiratory allergies can progress to asthma by adolescence.