Well, we tried

My little one had to be off of her twice daily allergy medication for three days to have the skin test. The day of the skin test she had benadryl because of the reaction. Since she was off of the medicine we tried an experiment. We kept her off of it to see how she does. She's been doing shots for 3 1/2 years so we thought that we could take her off of the medicine. That worked great until last night. She sounded slightly congested and she started to cough. She got up this morning and still sounded slightly congested and was still coughing a little. I could hear it in her chest. Back on the medicine! The slightest cough from that child sends us in a tailspin of worry, fear, and bad memories. During her first anaphylactic reaction she coughed. A horrible sounding cough. As a toddler she was constantly on breathing treatments. Every cold and environmental allergy attack ended up in her chest. I must sound like an over protective crazy person but I also know what a cough for her means. She has gone 4 years without a breathing treatment and we are not going back to that. So, a little allergy medicine will be used. Maybe we can try going without the medicine another time, just not now.