Health: Teen, Steroids

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Eliminating Foods from Child's Diet

My 3 yr old son has a lot of allergies and what doctor's call mild asthma. He was hospitalized in August and the doctor's think he may be developing asthma, but didn't necessarily say that is what it is. His breathing problems seem to be brought on when he has a cold or allergies. We took him to get an allergy test and found that he is allergic to nuts, eggs, dogs, cats, and various tree, grass, and weeds. I have a SIL that works for a chiropractor and is constanly telling us to eliminate dairy and gluten from his diet. I understand...

Medicines

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Advise on Dr. Prescription

I took my 10 year old son to the doctor with symptoms including a soar throat and stuffy nose. The nurse did a quick strep test that came back negative. When the doctor came in he said it was probably his sinuses. He looked in his ears and found them to be normal. Then he looked in his throat and said that he was going to prescribe him singulair and zyrtec because he felt that my son has allergies and not a virus. This just sounds fishy to me. We have never been told that my son has allergies and now suddenly we are being told that he...

Mental Health

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My Health, Your Thoughts...

I have some symptoms that I have had since I was a teen such as extreme fatigue, however over the past couple of years I have felt like I have aged like crazy, I am sore and stiff, my memory has goten bad, and I have horrible skin on my chest, I have found lately that I can't take sulfa drugs because they make me incredibly sick, and I just feel sore and achy most of the time. My doc referred me to an ENT to look closer at my thyroid, he ran blood work and my ANA is positive with a titer of 1:640. So as of now, my ENT is going to send me...

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Congentin and Abilify

Hello I was wondering if anyone takes Congentin or Abilify. I started taking...