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any lo's with allergies?
dont know if paige has one or not.....got doctors with her on tuesday (ffs got another 4 days with my poor baby in agony).....well it started yesterday afternoon, walking home from my parents, she started screaming uncontrollably, my dh had to come pick us up in the street......when i got her home her eyes inside and out were bright red, watering and they became so swollen that she played and had a bath with her eyes shut, i even tried bathing them with boiled cooled water which she screamed at......anyway i gave her some calpol and she finally went off to sleep about 7.30 and slept til 6......but it struck me that it was a bit like hayfever symptoms (she has had a cough for a couple of weeks and now has a runny nose too), thought i'd see what she was like this morning.......well she was fine and then this afternoon while at my parents my mum was cutting the grass and off her eyes went again, i phoned the docs to get an appointment and was told i couldnt get one til tuesday and the gp said that it is highly unlikely that a child so young (9months) could have hayfever, well after the grass had been cut her eyes calmed down and then i thought (wicked i know) i'd sit her on the grass to play and see what happened, and hey presto agaion they started.........If its not hayfever any ideas? anyone elses lo's got the same problem? my poor baby i just want to cuddle her protect her and make it all better
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Sounds like it to me from the symptoms.
I would be tempted to call NHS direct or take her to A & E if it happens over the weekend, you seem to get things moving quicker and a bit more help.
Must admit my surgery sees babies the same day rather than having to wait which is really good.
Good luck and let us know the outcome.
Yeah same symptoms eyes looked so sore. I also suffered asthma as a child - no eczema but oh suffers really bad with hay fever.
The doc at hospital said they hadn't seen a child so young with such severe symptoms but the advice they gave me was to keep him indoors!!!! very helpful. I've just been trying to bathe his eyes been a lot better today tho.
well i took paige into town today shopping and while we were out her eyes started up again so i popped her into boots and showe dthe pharmacists i told her about all the symptoms and she said that it definately sounds like and looks like it is hayfever but that there is nothing that can be bought over the counter for it for a baby under one, and that paige would need to see the gp....she advised me to use saline drops to clear her nose and to put bowls of water around the house to keep the air moist
sian
I've ordered some sunglasses and been putting vaseline under his nose. (someone suggested it to keep the pollen out) and he's been a lot better. Eyes still a little sore and itchy but nothing near what they were like last week.
Hope the eyedrops help x