Back to the Allergist...

My second post... Look at me go... Anyways Hayden and I had our follow up today from the wonderful allergy skin tests we had done a month ago (sense the sarcasim when I said wonderful???) Things went well today, the Doc just asked how we were doing on our allergy medication and how we were feeling.. Now Hayden's been fighting yet another cold for the last couple days so I informed the doc that and he told me that a child of his age with his types of allergies has an 80% chance of also having asthma... And the number could be greater if a parent (me) also has sever allergies and asthma... So we are now both on an asthma inhaler on top of our allergy meds... Poor guy, I'm sorry honey!!!!

Now for those of you who are wondering why we went BACK to the allergist heres the story...

Hayden's been sick now for almost a full year... He's had around 12 sinus infections, a fever seizure and numerous ER and Doc visits... Now he's only had 2 ear infections (1 per ear) so no he doesn't need or has Tubes in his ears... Since alot of kids his age have if they've been this sick... Finally his Pediatrician said "see an allergist"... Now when I was 18 I was diagnosed with asthma and allergies and was recommended to do the testing (the skin test) well I was scared and decided not to go through it... Well once they told me to take Hayden I thought I would do it as well to..... 1. Finally find out what I was allergic to and 2. If Hayden saw me do it maybe it wouldn't be such a fight for him to... So we did. If you don't know how they test for something like that I'll tell ya... For an adult they map out your back with a marker and 45 small dots and with those 45 dots they put serum of the actual tree, weed, pollen, animal, ect, ect on that dot and then take this tool and break the first layer of skin so that serum goes into it... And like Chinese torture you lay there (not able to scratch) for 20 minutes to see what you are allergic too.. Hayden had 15 of these dots cause they do a childs skin test different than an adults (picture below). Now to find out how you are allergic is dependant on the size of welt you get around that dot.. Its scaled 1-4.... 1 being not allergic and 4 being severe.... Well I came back with all 4's pretty much except I'm not allergic to feather so I could have a bird if I wanted (Yippie !!!) Hayden was all 2's so mid allergic ... Being that I'm as bad as I am they think that as Hayden gets older he may become like me... And this is why we went to the allergist... Now other than this small cold he's fighting he hasn't been sick since so I really hope we have finally found the colprit... This is Hayden's back from the skin test.