The boy’s health is a bit of an ongoing saga at the moment.
Something is triggering itchiness and puffy eyes, on a completely irregular basis, but I have no idea what.
I could take a couple of educated guesses. Everytime we’ve spent a significant amount of time in our garden he’s been bad. We’ve got a silver birch in the garden and they are early pollinating trees, which I think would be about right. We didn’t spend any time in our garden today but he was still poorly this afternoon. We were at a friend’s house whose cats spend a lot of time inside (I think). Or, maybe it’s the virus still working it’s way through his system.
I’m vacillating between either taking him to the doctor’s tomorrow and saying I think he’s allergic to cats (or birch trees, or both) and can he be tested or waiting for a couple of weeks to see if the virus goes and he improves. Or doesn’t.
I wonder if we should go back to cat friends house. But I don’t want to trigger any sort of reaction really. I’ve got another friend who has cats but the boy doesn’t seem to get affected at her house. I don’t think. But maybe because her cats are outside a lot more the reaction isn’t as severe so I didn’t notice it. Too many buts for my liking.
I like to be in control of what’s happening around me, especially when it comes to my children, and I’m finding this not knowing really hard. It’s not just not knowing what’s going on now, it’s also not knowing when we might next encounter a nut, or if we even will. I know people whose, now teenage or grown up, children had a severe reaction when little and haven’t had one since. On the face of it, that’s brilliant. But can you imagine spending all that time just not knowing?
I took this on the way home this afternoon. The traffic was atrocious so I had plenty of time to grab a quick picture.
NB:- No children were endangered in the making of this picture, although I was in a minor state of panic all the way home.
Poor little man.
Followed a link from Veronicas and just had to say that we were in exactly this position a few years back with our girls…
The not knowing was horrible…. and it took us a long time and some allergy tests and a few ‘tests’ of our own to find out, and even now it is still a little unsure.
If it helps any… our girls are very allergic to cats, but are not as badly affected by some cats as others. It depends on how much a cat grooms and if they are inside/outside, what the breed is etc etc.
I hope you get to the bottom of all this soon…
Poor fella.
It’s so hard isn’t it? i have a cat allergy and it IS selective. Some cats dont bother me at all – we have one-, with others my eyes swell up and stream with water, and some make me sneeze constantly.
It is so frustrating isn’t it? trying to work out what is the cause of the allergies?
My son is very allergic to one of our friend’s dog, his eyes practically puff right out and give him no end of itch. But this never happened with their previous dog and nor has it happened with any other dogs or cats that he has come across. He can stroke / pat play with any dog, it seems, except this one. He only needs to walk in their house for 5 minutes now and it starts – it’s so strange.
Aww no, poor wee man.
I hope you get some answers soon. Just remember you’re an awesome mummy who’s doing ALL she can for her lil man. xx
I like to know as well. the not knowing does my head in.
My nephew is allergic to my cat but the allergy gets better on the second day he is here. Which is just as well because Tilly the cat adores Aaron and is most unhappy when she is ejected off his lap. He is ok if he doesn’t touch his face, as soon as he does his eyes puff up and stream.
The spouse is allergic to pollen and is completely miserable(and GRUMPY) from November to January. The pine trees down the road seem to be the worst offenders.
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