I HAVE A 6 YEAR OLD SON ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO HE TOLD US ONE TIME WHEN EATING A CHICKEN
NUGGET HAPPY MEAL THAT HIS THROAT HURT. WE THOUGHT HE JUST
DID NOT WANT TO EAT IT AND ONLY WANTED THE TOY. THE NEXT TIME
HE GOT ANOTHER CHICKEN NUGGET HAPPY MEAL HE COMPLAINED OF HIS
THROAT HURTING AGAIN. FOR SOME REASON WE WENT ONLINE AND FOUND
OUT PEOPLE CAN BE ALLERGIC TO CHICKEN.
WE BROUGHT HIM TO HIS PEDIATRICIAN AND HE GAVE HIM THE SKIN TEST
AND TOLD US HE WAS ALLERGIC TO CHICKEN, TURKEY, TREE NUTS, SESAME, EGGS
HE PRESCRIBED EPIPENS AND SCARED US TO DEATH ON HOW SERIOUS THIS CAN BE.
THREE YEARS WENT BY AND WE ISOLATED HIM FROM THESE FOODS BECAUSE THE DOCTOR
HAD US THINKING THEY WOULD POSSIBLY CAUSE DEATH.
HIS SYMPTOMS WHEN EATING CHICKEN WOULD BE THAT HE SAYS HIS THROAT HURT AND HE
GETS A BUMP INSIDE HIS LIP THAT WE VISIBLY COULD SEE.
ABOUT 6 MONTHS AGO WE CHANGED HIS DOCTOR BECAUSE HE ***** AND WE HAD SOME OTHER ISSUES WITH HIM. ABOUT 3 MONTHS AGO WE GAVE HIM SHRIMP AT APPLEBYS AND HE WAS COMPLAIN OF THROAT PAIN. WE BROUGHT HIM INTO THE NEW DOCTOR AND HE GAVE US A REFERRAL TO A BOARD CERTIFIED ALLERGIST. HE DID A SKIN TEST THAT PRODUCED SOME SMALL BUMPS ON THE SUSPECT ALLERGIES BUT NOT AS LARGE AS THEY SHOULD BE FOR SOMEONE WITH ALLERGIES TO THAT FOOD.
HE ORDERED THE BLOOD TEST AND THE RESULT SHOWED SLIGHTLY ELEVATED LEVEL BUT NOT NO WHERE CLOSE TO WERE THEY WOULD BE FOR SOMEONE WHO IS ALLERGIC. HE TOLD US TO REINTRODUCE THESE FOODS TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. HE STILL GETS A BUMP ON HIS MOUTH AND COMPLAINS OF THROAT PAIN.
TODAY HE TOLD US AN ICE CREAM MADE HIS THROAT HURT.
A FEW DAYS AGO IT WAS A MCDONLDS CHESEBURGER THAT HE MUST HAVE ATE 5 IN THE LAST MONTH WITH NO PROBLEM.
HE ASKS FOR THE BENADRYL AND HIS THROAT STOPS HURTING.
DOES ANYONE SOME OF THIS MIGHT BE PHYSIOLOGICAL INDUCED?