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4 year old with allergies at night

  • 06-09-2020 9:50pm
    #1
    Lexi747
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭


    We have a 4 year old who frequently wakes at night with a runny nose, red rimmed eyes and cough. He takes a preventative inhaler daily. He had not suffered these symptoms at all during lockdown. He is only a couple of days into school, and these sypmtoms are back. His sleep is really disturbed, and he is very restless at night. Apart from antihistamines, we have not been given a lot of help /advice from the doctor. Just wondering if anyone is in a similar situation, any advice or help appreciated.


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  • #2
    Wearandtear
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭Wearandtear


    Ask your doctor to do a blood test which screens for what's causing the allergies. It's the only way to be certain, skin prick tests are not deemed reliable. I had bloods done myself which showed I'm very allergic to both dust mites and cats.

    Just speculating here, but as the symptoms are bad at night, there's a good chance it's dust mites, which build up in bedding. For me, I can't have carpet in the bedroom, and wash all clothes and bedding at 60 degrees as any cooler doesn't kill the mites. I also found that going dairy free really reduced my symptoms. Good luck!


  • #3
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,847 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Are you now shutting the windows in the bedroom?
    If it was the bedding, strange it only kicked in on return to school.

    Suggests there is something in the school or on way to school that could be causing allergic reaction.
    e.g. dust in the school built up when closed up or from building work during the break

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #4
    hayoc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭hayoc


    Proper skin prick testing is more sensitive than blood tests - but its expensive to get it done privately. I had mine done by a Malaysian doctor who sits in the Beacon Consultants Clinic:

    https://www.beaconhospital.ie/allergies/

    From my own experiences in changing to wooden floors, changing pillows every few weeks etc I turned out not to have allergies but chronic low level sinusitis that was more or less resolved (bar flare ups) from a combo of saline water nasal rinsing (Neilmed - you can get it in a chemist - there may be child friendly versions), a steroid nasal spray (similar to an inhaler - Dymista works for me - the doc in the link above was involved in the development of it) and a Dyson Air Purifier in the bedroom - the Dyson made the biggest immediately noticeable difference tbh - again though - expensive.

    It turned out I wasnt allergic to anything in my environment. Given that your son is suffering while taking antihistamines, it may be that he doesnt have an allergy issue either.

    My own sinus issues (which started in childhood but were largely ignored until my 20s) led to me requiring surgery for nasal polyps which had formed because of the constant inflammation in my sinus cavities.


  • #5
    85603
    Registered Users Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭85603


    dont eat near bedtime.
    buteyko breathing technique. breath through the nose.


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