Today was Spencer's pulmonary and allergy skin tests. I didn't get the complete results of the lung test, although the technician said there was a huge improvement after he gave him the inhaler. And he was asymptomatic today. But the skin test was amazing. He had a positive reaction to 14 out of 15 environmental allergens. The worst were the grasses. The nurse said he had an amazing amount of energy considering the extent of his allergies. He's always been snotty and we figured he probably had seasonal allergies, but we didn't know how extensive they were. Here is the complete list: alternaria (?) , aspergillus (mold), bermuda grass, orchard grass, black cottonwood, western sycamore, dog, cat, ragweed, rye, scale (?), dust mite DF and DP, and cantaloupe. I told him he needs to live in the dessert where nothing grows. The good thing is that he has had much less snot since we started him on the nasal lavage and nasal steroid spray.
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Dang it. Bermuda grass is what everyone has here--it grows like crazy and I think in most places is considered a weed. Around here it's the main lawn component.
Yeah, we figured grass was one of the culprits. He gets a bad rash whenever he rolls down a hill.
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