Last Thursday I took Kristjan in for his second round of allergy testing. This time he had an oral challenge to Ibuprofen. After sitting in the patient room for over 2 hours with both boys (and wanting to pull my hair out!!), it was confirmed that the drug is safe for Kristjan to take. Woo-hoo! So now it's ok for him to have Tylenol and Ibuprofen. The Doctor decided he won't test Kristjan on Oxycodone 1) because it's a narcotic and he doesn't feel comfortable giving it as an oral challenge, and 2) he truly believes that Kristjan's reaction was just a fluke. He said the drug on it's own gives off histamines in the body when taken. When Kristjan was given it, his body was already under extreme stress from his surgery, which then caused the reaction. Make sense??? I would prefer to have him tested just so we could rule it out 100%. I mean, come on, this kid is always the one who has numerous doctor/hospital trips (we really had Clifford pegged to be "that" kid, but he fooled us). I would hate to have him have another reaction if he's truly allergic to it, but I guess if that situation arises, we'll already be at the hospital for whatever reason for him to be given Oxycodone. Let's just hope the reaction last June really was just a freak accident.
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