Allergies or illness?

Posted By Rae on November 04, 1998 at 00:02:12:







Hi! Thank you in advance for answering this question.
My daughter is two years old.  She is allergic all milk and wheat products.  
Her reaction to milk is very severe.  My daughter also has periodic
outbreaks of severe hives extended from her chest to her face, hands, and mouth,
followed by severe coughing( hard enough to make her gag) runny nose,
and her eyes swelling up.  The cause of these outbreaks are unknown at this
time.  My child's allergist is reluctant to do allergy testing on her because
she is so young (He did do the wheat test though).  My daughter had an extrmely
violent reaction to a cat.  She was rushed to her doctors immediately and
given benedryl.  She had a difficulty breathing.  This incident happened nine weeks
ago.  She had a very violent cough with this attack.  She still has a cough today
(nine weeks later).  She coughs at night, when she runs around, and when
she laughs hard.  Her doctor had me try dimetap and triaminic, but these meds did not seem to
help.  Her allergist decided to put her on Zyrtec and she has been on
it for a month.  Her cough has not improved.  Her doctor told me to give her delsym.
That does help her cough at night.  However, the day time coughing is still
there.  He told me to increase the delsym by 50% and add dimetap as well.
Both her allergist and her doctor have gave me these instructions over the
phone.  They insist they do not have to see her.  She has had this
cough for nine weeks with little improvement.  No one has listened to her
chest in these nine weeks. She has been very tired the past few days and is running a slight
temp  barely 100.   I am worried that she may have something else that is being overlooked.
Should I change docs or demand they see her?  Her cousin, who she plays
with frequently, has walking pneumonia.  He had the exact same symptoms
that my daughter has.  My doctor insists that she could not get it from him.
Is this possible?  Does it sound like she may have this or asthma, or a viral
infection?  Is it normal to have this cough for this many months?
Thank you for your time,
Rae