We know ds has allergies. We do not know to what. His pediatrician basically said she would refer us to an allergist if we wanted to but that she would place money on him being allergic to what we think he is (basically that the parents know their child better than any allergy test does). She said that there wasn't much point in doing allergy testing if we don't plan on doing allergy shots (which we don't). In a way- I agree with her. DS had food allergies when he was younger and we did do allergy testing (and eliminated them, after a year he had outgrown them). He also has a severe allergy to something (carries an epi-pen jr) but we don't know what (random allergic reaction almost 3 years ago that landed him in the ER but we never figured out what caused it).
But, we also know he has environmental allergies. We know smoke for sure he reacts to. I suspect dogs/animals. I'm pretty certain dust and pollon bothers him. Now I'm questioning grass. But this one isn't just the respiratory stuff we've seen with the other environmental allergies (stuffy/runny nose, itchy/watery eyes, sneezing, coughing, etc). He's got a rash on his back that is coming and going. It started about a week ago. By morning it's looking better but then by evening (bath time) it's bad again! The only thing I can think of is grass, since he's playing outside pretty much every day. There's no new laundry detergent or fabric softener. He had the rash a little on his arms the other day too, but that's mostly gone.
He's on Nasonex daily, which controls the other symptoms, but what do I do about the rash??
But, we also know he has environmental allergies. We know smoke for sure he reacts to. I suspect dogs/animals. I'm pretty certain dust and pollon bothers him. Now I'm questioning grass. But this one isn't just the respiratory stuff we've seen with the other environmental allergies (stuffy/runny nose, itchy/watery eyes, sneezing, coughing, etc). He's got a rash on his back that is coming and going. It started about a week ago. By morning it's looking better but then by evening (bath time) it's bad again! The only thing I can think of is grass, since he's playing outside pretty much every day. There's no new laundry detergent or fabric softener. He had the rash a little on his arms the other day too, but that's mostly gone.
He's on Nasonex daily, which controls the other symptoms, but what do I do about the rash??
and often has unexplained flair ups of her eczema because of it.
, passing out on my friend's lawn for a bit one night when they had sprayed pesticides or fertilizer or something that day. i thought it was something i ate, but it turns out it was the stuff they sprayed. hope it's something that east for you! and despite too much wine 
). I have no idea what they put on it or when they've put stuff on our yard this spring. I know they did earlier this week, but the rash started before that. I don't know if they put anything on the yard before this week. The neighbors do not put anything on their yard.
but a duck). He's had this for about a year. I took one close smell of it and I guarantee it has mold in it. I'll bet *that* is what he's reacting to. That's funny that after playing outside in the evening we were rushing to get him into the bath, thinking that we needed to get the grass off him as quickly as possible when all along it was probably the bath that was causing issues 
