Childhood Allergies: Fleeting or Forever?
People can outgrow allergies they had as children, and should get tested as adults, especially if their last allergic reaction was a while ago.
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People can outgrow allergies they had as children, and should get tested as adults, especially if their last allergic reaction was a while ago.
Exercising too much or something. >> the symptoms lingered. one month later reese seemed to be getting worse, not better. >> initially we thought maybe it is because reese is in preschool, in nursery school and you know how kids just -- they constantly just contaminate one another with a little bug or virus. >> doctors could find nothing wrong. tests were inconclusive. when he was taking for allergy tests, those too were negative. soon reese's problems moved from respiratory to neurological. reese who had learned his abcs from a-z suddenly couldn't get past d. >> he was deteriorating quickly a...
And he would have a real hard time catching his breath. he'd -- [ gasping ] and we thought, golly, maybe he's exercising too much or something. >> the symptoms lingered. one month later, reese seemed to be getting worse, not better. >> initially, we thought maybe it's because reese is in preschool, in nursery school and you know how kids just -- they constantly get -- contaminate one another with a little bug or virus. >> doctors could find nothing wrong. tests were inconclusive. when he was taken for allergy tests, those, too, were negative. soon, reese's problems moved from respiratory to ne...
Almost everything else. including chicken, turkey, rice, sweet potatoes and bananas. as an infant he was even allergic to his mother's breast milk. in fact, for the first four years of his life, he could only have baby formula. so, when did you first realize that something was wrong? >> the main problem happens when we started introducing the baby foods, the cereals, vegetables, fruits, all of those things. >> reporter: what reaction did he have? >> he was vomiting sometimes 15, 20 times. he would lay there. he was lethargic. i would hold him in my arms. i didn't know what to do. >> reporter: ...
>> the medications, i take something over the counter that's always helped me. this season it's not doing a thing. >> allergy tests can be done in an office. find out what you're allergic to to make the treatment plan right for you. >> rick: you brought this with you, what the allergy testing kit looks like. no needless and ten, 15 minutes later you tell them. >> virtually painless, 10, 15 minutes. it's reliable and it's a lot of fun for patients once they find out the problems because we develop a directed plan to fix the problem and learn about the environment and what makes them tick. >> ri...