How has your child handled allergy shots?

[Guest pandas16]

Have you given your PANDAS child allergy shots? How have they tolerated them?

[Fixit]

as per other post...

ds just started about 4 months ago..

but we are probably only 2 months into real dose...

Doc B in CT started ds super low as per pandas and per he is extremely allergic to all enviromentals...

it is feb in GA..i would usually see watery eyes by now..but it is early and it's been cold here...

no reaction to shots...about the 4 th week..did have a little itching at site...but that passed and doing well

[LNN]

My DD6 has been a Pandas/Pitands question mark for 2 yrs. Recent events make this seem more likely. But she has had allergy shots weekly for 10 months with no apparent effect on behaviors. She has had months of feeling great and months of not so great, but no correlation to the shots. In contrast, her seasonal allergies are debilitating. Her eyes swell shut and she cannot leave the house in May at the peak of whatever tree she's most allergic to. She becomes so PMS-y that we all suffer.

 

With 3 feet of snow outside, we won't know if the shots have helped until things start blooming again. But we had to do something. I think others may have had different experiences, but no adverse effects in my DD that I can see.

 

(the one notable effect - in the months she's been great, getting shots has been no big deal for her. In the months where we had pitands-like issues, the shots were very scary for her. Lots of ERP and tears. But two weeks ago, while on omnicef for sinus infection, suddenly shots were no biggie after months of fears (and other OCD issues). Alexander Fleming (discovered penicillin) is my patron saint!

[Phasmid]

My son had allergy shots for 6 months and handled them fine. He never stopped reacting at the site- HUGE wheals each time, and they did have to go back down a couple times. I think they did help, and no correlation to behavior change seen.