Poor Allison has been battling horrible allergies for two weeks now. The oak pollen is out of control. My Highlander is yellow at the moment. We are supposed to get massive rain over the next 24 hours, and according to pollen.com she'll have some relief. However, it hasn't happened yet. It is 2 AM, and I just put her back in bed after she came to me itching, coughing, wheezing, and miserable.
It started with a very swollen eye. We immediately went to the doctor, and she started on a nasal spray, allergy eye drops, and was told to continue her morning and evening allergy medications.
Ten days later we were back in the doctor's office because her eyes were both itchy and red, and her skin was extremely itchy. New cream, eye drops, prescription night allergy medicine, prescription under-eye cream for the dry skin that cannot go into her eyes (come on, if she rubs at all it's in her eyes), and continue morning allergy medicine.
Four days following that visit she has been sent home from school for the red eyes, and at gymnastics last night they were extremely worried she had pink eye. She doesn't. And, even if she did those new eye drops are the same ones they give for pink eye.
I feel so badly for Allison, and I'm so frustrated that they cannot give her a shot or something to relieve these allergy symptoms. What in the world is a mom to do? After being in the house for a few hours yesterday afternoon her eyes did start to clear up some. Here is a picture we took for Papa Fred's birthday project:
You can see how they are somewhat irritated and swollen. They don't look too horrible though, and she begged to go to gymnastics. As soon as we went outside in the wind to head to out they flared up again. These eyes have been making her crazy on and off for now 15 days. Please let this rain be the solution!
