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Claritin, Benadryl, and Hydrocortizone

Debi - posted on 05/27/2009 ( 4 moms have responded )

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I have a 2yo with mystery allergies/intolerances (waiting on results from blood test). His symptoms are not life-threatening but they cause the entire family a lot of grief and lost sleep: eczema and hives/itching attacks that lead to screaming and crying in the middle of the night.

We apply hydrocortizone cream on his hives and sometimes give him Benadryl when it's really bad (if he'll take it ... often he's too upset to drink it). Our pediatrician recently told us to give him Claritin, which we've been trying but I don't really see results. And to our observation his allergies are food-related, not respiratory.

I worry about over-medicating him. Sometimes we're putting the hydrocortizone on every night for several nights in a row. And I'm not sure when I should give him Claritin ... every day? For how long? I don't think it's supposed to work immediately the way Benadryl does, right?

Your thoughts/experiences welcome. Thanks.

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Jennifer - posted on 08/29/2009

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Hopefully by now you've received a diagnosis and results on which foods he's allergic to. We have what I would consider severe food allergies, even though I know moms dealing with worse (and their children). How are things now?

Winnella - posted on 08/11/2009

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my baby is 2 1/2 and he is allergic to egg, milk, cheese, peanut, soy, and fish and many more foods. you should start reading what he eats before he eats it and find out what food he is allergic to. for 2 months my baby was throwing up and we did not know what it was. the specialist found out that he had too much soy in him from eating frozen french fries but be fried it in canola oit. i feel your pain completely because he is starting to scratch again. i give him benadryl works and tried claritin but it breaks him out in hives.

Ashley - posted on 06/12/2009

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Claritin every day...it does take a few days to work...Cortisone doesn't work on actual hives. Benadryl should, but if he has hives he his most likely having an actual acute reaction to something that he ate and you should really monitor him to make sure that it doesn't get any worse....Can you tell what he is reacting to? What foods seem to trigger this? It is really hard to get all this under control. Try the Claritin (daily) though and Benadryl for acute reactions. And try to figure out what his allergy is to! Good luck!!!

Deanna - posted on 06/01/2009

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Good Afternoon,

I too have a daughter that had a mysterious symptoms that kept my ped. on her toes, My daughter (after a month) of back and forth visits to her ped. we went to a allergy specialist and determined she is allergic to Milk,Soy, Wheat and Shelfishto include a few other things, but I am now happy to report that all the symptoms have gone away since eliminating all these things from her diet. The one piece of advice I can give you about symptoms that are occuring right now is, what worked for my daughter is aveno bath powder, it really worked wonders in combination with benadryl. Yeah for sleep. LOL

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