Please excuse the title of this post. I'm incredibly tired, and very much lacking in creativity right now. We took Jesse for allergy testing today. The doc's name is Dr. Kamra (not sure on the spelling at the moment). She took a history, and we told her of the three reactions he's had. Then she got herself set up. She did a skin-prick allergy test. She tested him for allergies to bananas, watermelon, oatmeal and penicillin (the 4 things that he was possibly allergic to). She also tested him for allergies to latex, kiwi, barley, rice, fish, peanuts and a few other things. I think there were 9 pricks on his left arm and 16 on his right. Poor little bugger. He did really well though. Steve distracted him, and so he barely noticed what was going on. He noticed when Dr. Kamra did an intradermal penicillin injection. He screamed through that one. When she read the reactions, his only allergies (of those tested) were to penicillin and barley. That's a bit perplexing. But I've heard that sometimes different grains can be cross-contaminated in the packaging process. Then we had to take him for blood work. To be honest, I can't even remember exactly what they're testing. I can't believe I didn't ask. And I didn't even look at the requisition to see what was written on it, since Steve was the one who took it. I know she's doing a CBC. (I asked her to check his hemoglobin.) I guess I'll just have to wait til our follow up visit. She also gave us a script for 1% hydrocortisone cream since his poor little body is covered with eczema. She wants to see him again in September or October.
In the meantime, Jesse had a really bad reaction to bananas. I don't know what that was about. I'm hoping he doesn't have any more reactions. I'm going to wait a bit before starting anything new with him again though. I want his tummy to recover from that round of antibiotics first. Perhaps that could be why he reacted to the oatmeal.
Oh, and then we went to the Janeway for his blood work. NOT FUN! The phlebotomist was quite contrary, and did a lot of digging around with the butterfly needle before finding a vein. Steve had to hold back from clocking her. Jesse screeched through it. The paper on the examination table was soaked with his tears when they were done. I'm just glad it's over and done with. And I'd like to never have to do that again.
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