A Bit Allergic

Poor Camden, it seems like he has been allergic to something ever since he was born. It started with dairy products, which fortunately he outgrew and now it seems to be environmental. Unfortunately, he gets it honestly from his mother. Sorry buddy!!! It seems that since May he has had a snotty nose, and it has become our morning routine for him to wake up blow his nose and take his Zyrtec. In the past 4 months he has been to the pediatrician twice for his allergies  and in October his pediatrician put him on Singular to see if that would help his symptoms alone with the recommendation for us to follow up with an allergist. Since his symptoms did not improve on the Singular, I made an appointment for the allergist, which we saw for the first time a few weeks ago. He started Camden on Nasonex and recommended allergy testing.

So, today we went to the doctor for the allergy testing and it seems as though the poor child is allergic to everything!

I guess I shouldn't be surprised since his allergies seems to be year around. He mainly reacted to cats (C section) one type of dust mites, ragweed, pollen, grasses (B section) and others. He did absolutely awesome though and never once complained about the whole process. The doctor's main concern is that Camden had problems with wheezing in July when his allergies were bad and the doctor is concerned that his allergies are going to cause him to have asthma flare ups. This doctor is not a big proponent of allergy shots, however he did recommend them for Camden.

Camden being silly while we wait.

We stopped and picked up some of Camden's
favorite candy since he did such an
awesome job.

The next step is for us to decide if we continue on with allergy shots, which would be two shots once a month for about three years once we reached the maintenance dose. Getting to maintenance dose requires shots weekly or twice weekly for several months or to just continue to try the Nasonex to see if Camden's symptoms improve on that before starting the shots. All I know is, we need to do something because the poor guy can get really miserable with his allergies.