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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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 Posted - Mar 08 2009 : 1:10:24 PM
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Nora has been having a rash issue for the past month. It would calm down and then flair back up again. She has been getting so itchy that she has been scratching herself bloody in places. I normally don't have to trim her nails down very far. She likes the long and is usually really good about not scratching herself, but I have had to clip them down as far as they can go.
So Friday night she was extra itchy. We gave her some Benedryl and some Tylenol and she fell asleep. After being asleep for only a couple of hours, she woke up screaming in pain.
We tried to give her an oatmeal bath to see if that would help calm down the itching, but it didn't help. So because she was in so much pain we ended up taking her to the ER. They have proscribed her steroids and an allergy medicine and we need to take her to an allergist to help narrow down what the real allergy is.
They also recommended taking her off dairy and eggs to see if that helped.
She has been off dairy for a full day, and today she is still itchy so I am really hoping it wasn't dairy! But at the same time I hope it is dairy so that we can more forward with eliminating the allergen from our diet.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
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Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
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Posted - Mar 08 2009 : 2:38:52 PM
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Poor Nora. Are the docs sure it's an allergy? My younger two always broke out in the winter from eczema, very itchy rash. Sometimes weather changes or changes in diet can bring on an outbreak too. Hope doc can figure out what it is and get it cleared up for her.
Hugs Melanie
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Mar 08 2009 : 6:29:47 PM
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I don't think we will know for sure until we visit the allergist and really see what is going on. I hope it is an easy fix. Her screaming in pain like that was horrible.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
Please come visit Nora and me on our blog: www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
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kissmekate
True Blue Farmgirl
890 Posts
Kate
Delano
Minnesota
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Posted - Mar 08 2009 : 7:06:43 PM
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Wow,poor baby girl...
I hope it is something simple and easy to treat.
Sometimes I think doctors hear hooves and think zebras instead of horses.
Don't miss out on a blessing, just because it isn't packaged the way you expected. ~MaryJo Copeland |
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MagnoliaWhisper
True Blue Farmgirl
2817 Posts
Heather
Haysville
Kansas
USA
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Posted - Mar 09 2009 : 11:00:09 AM
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Lela had the same problem from birth till she was 6 months old. I tried every RX the dr prescribed, and every shampoo/soap they said to use.
Then I read on here about No Poo.......I first used it on her head, NO more itching right away.
Then one night the funniest thing happened. She was itching really badly and had a horrible rash, we decided to give her a bath first, to save time I just used baking soda to wash her as well as her hair.
By, the time we got seen by the ER dr, the rash was completely gone!!!!!! I mean gone. We were baffled.
I went to only using baking soda to wash her whole body, and she has never had the rashes return, she's 2 1/2 now!
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
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Posted - Mar 09 2009 : 1:41:38 PM
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I watched a new program on tv last night that delves deeper into issues. One segment last night was about a little guy about Nora's age with a very nasty, owie looking allergic rash. An alert pediatrician recognized it as an allergy to red food coloring made from the cochineal beetle (and labelled as "natural"). Google it...you'll be appalled at the common products that contain the coloring from this beetle...Minute Maid, several popular varieties of yogurt and ice cream, most red candy, soda pop, orange Listerine mouthwash, etc. etc. I was shocked!!
Di on VI
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MagnoliaWhisper
True Blue Farmgirl
2817 Posts
Heather
Haysville
Kansas
USA
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Posted - Mar 09 2009 : 2:45:06 PM
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I didn't know about that Diane, however, I do know with out a doubt that my niece and nephews are all allergic to red food dye! They will puke their guts out if anything has it in it, that they eat. It took me years to convince the rest of the family of this. Finally I just started inviting the family members that insisted on feeding the children foods with it, to come clean the puke!
Any way, thankfully eventually the kids got big enough to let people know about the allergy, if they were eating at their home, and began to remember what foods made them puke later!
Now they are in foster care (long story) and the social worker is complaining about their puking......tried to let them know of this allergy and how they never puked with me, in my care.....but as usual such crazy thinking as mine is ignored. I guess the foster parents will just have to keep cleaning puke. (btw the kids did tell the foster parents, but these foster parents have a strict eat every thing on your plate rule....so I guess they will have a strict clean up puke rule in the house too!).
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
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Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
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