RE: Possible Food Allergy Causing Freequent Sinus Infections?
Have you been to an ENT yet? (Are there pediatric ENT's?)
I had chronic bronchitis through college. Finally, in grad school, I got referred out to an ENT. He took one look in my nose and saw a deviated septum, which no one else had ever noticed. It's the piece that runs down the center of the nose, and mine blocked off one side of my sinuses, trapping everything inside. I had to have sinus surgery to clean out the sinuses, which were full of nasty stuff of the likes the doc had never seen before. (Septum was fixed at the same time.) I haven't had bronchitis since, and though I'm still prone to sinus infections, I now know it and can be more proactive to prevent secondary infections.
Moral of the story: there are things that can be wrong that even the best ped may not be looking for. (I mean, I saw 20-some years worth of doctors before this was found!)
Are you sure they want to do a prick test? Not a food challenge? And, like another poster said, the prick tests aren't that bad.
mommy to three boys: A, 3/04
and identical twins B and D, arrived 9/08