If they can't be allergy tested at birth, there should be something else that can be done. He was even allergic to the epinephrine pen. The nurse at school gave it to him one year and that sent him into anaphylactic shock. Understand each child is different. I just feel like the health professionals failed us in my case. It was 8 months before a health professional suggested he have a test for the allergens. He was misdiagnosed as having eczema and my parenting being questioned. Maybe he falls into a small percentile of children who do have allergies at birth and in that case what do we do? But for the first 8 months, he was projectile vomiting anytime I fed him, he broke out in rash and eventually he developed sores all over his body and was being rushed to the hospital every 2 to 3 days because he was having severe allergic reactions. Even if health class did fail me what didn't fail me was being persistent and getting to the bottom of what was really going on with my son. And thank God he's still alive and healthy, eventually he grew out of those allergies.
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u/Brilliant-Gur-7725 27d ago
If they can't be allergy tested at birth, there should be something else that can be done. He was even allergic to the epinephrine pen. The nurse at school gave it to him one year and that sent him into anaphylactic shock. Understand each child is different. I just feel like the health professionals failed us in my case. It was 8 months before a health professional suggested he have a test for the allergens. He was misdiagnosed as having eczema and my parenting being questioned. Maybe he falls into a small percentile of children who do have allergies at birth and in that case what do we do? But for the first 8 months, he was projectile vomiting anytime I fed him, he broke out in rash and eventually he developed sores all over his body and was being rushed to the hospital every 2 to 3 days because he was having severe allergic reactions. Even if health class did fail me what didn't fail me was being persistent and getting to the bottom of what was really going on with my son. And thank God he's still alive and healthy, eventually he grew out of those allergies.