zeph's allergies

Zeph went to his first allergy doctor visit this week, it went better than expected.  W had just had an appointment earlier in the month, so Zeph had been to the office prior to his visit.  We were going to try and wait until he was two for his prick test, but decided we couldn't wait any longer.  He has had a running nose for the last year and we really wanted to get to the bottom of it.  Turns out, he is only allergic to cats.  Which is great.  We thought he was going to be allergic to a lot more.  Dr. Avner told us (again) that we are not born with allergies, but with the genetic predisposition of allergies.  So, it's odd that Z has a cat allergy, since we don't have one and he has not had any contact with cats.  We also found out that Z has a 50% chance of having asthma, awesome.  The prick test did not give us an answer as to why his nose runs so much, but we did get a prescription nasal spray that seems to be working.  

Zeph waiting out the prick test.  He did really good during this part, not so good during his histamine test.  They did that test on his arm, it itched and I had to hold his arm so he could not scratch it.  It was hard to watch.

The test is over!  Zeph's back looks way better than W's did.  

Happy Zeph.