Rita,

Is your doctor familiar with EPD (enzyme potentiated desensitization) shots?
This is a bit of a new frontier on the allergy front, but might be worth
checking out if you haven't already.

Also,  I learned in an immunology course last year that exposure to diesel
fuel can exaggerate an immune response by as much as a thousand-fold.  We
have a Honda, and it has the ability to recirculate the inside air in the
car without the outside air coming in, and that's the car I drive.  A couple
of years ago, my husband had been driving my car and he likes the outside
air in, so had changed the vent setting.  My daughter and I were driving
that day down a usual route, but we both started smelling the fumes from
outside, and I turned the vent off after we had probably driven a couple of
miles.  A few minutes later, though, my daughter turned white as a sheet and
was nauseous and became unable/unwilling to move on her own initiative.  Her
occupational therapist (where we were going) did cranial sacral therapy on
her, and that got the color back into her lips, and she started moving again
about thirty minutes later and was fine about an hour later.

I only said this to suggest that with a very allergic child, it might be a
good idea to be sure he isn't exposed to fumes when he is in your car, or
other fumes like paint fumes, room deoderizers and such.  These probably
strain an already challenged system.

Just to test this on myself, recently, I drove a 450 mile trip I make
frequently, but I took my husband's truck, which has no inside/outside air
control.  I did get stuffy and lightheaded en route, and that had not
happened to me in recent years on that route, so I think there is something
to it!

Hope this helps (I'll pray, too!),

Susan

PS.  By any chance, have you done testing on the function of his immune
system, like levels of immunoglobulins and other factors?



At 11:06 PM 9/23/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
> I had to drop a note to all of you for prayers and advice. Here is a
>rundown of my situation:
>
> Yesterday I dropped my son (2&1/2) off at his grandmothers. He didnt want
>to go , he complained of not feeling well. He seemed to have a cold. My son
>is anaphylactic to milk,eggs,beef,chicken,peanuts,nuts and shellfish...that
>we know of. About 20 minutes after I dropped him off she called my husbands
>cellular to say that Zack was having trouble breathing.

>
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