Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Wed, 15 May 2013 04:51:45 GMT

jlim — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:51:45 GMT

My two ds see tcm sin chong at city square mall. Both had sinusitis plus 1st ds had pimples whenever his body is ‘heaty’. Thus the herbs works to clear the blocked nose, plemgh and pimples.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Thu, 09 May 2013 00:32:34 GMT

Chikmouse — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:32:34 GMT

Maybe can try TCM - herbal basic at 727 havelock road.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Wed, 08 May 2013 10:03:32 GMT

vinegar — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:03:32 GMT

Jennifer:

My elder boy has a very sensitive nose. He could detect what we just ate behind his back when we talked to him

At first, we thought that was cute. Until he started to be sick all the time.

In the end, he was put on nasal spray and oral Clarinase for 2 years.

After which, I brought him to see TCM for another issue - peeling skin on palms n soles.

Now he is 16 years old. On n off when the weather turns too cold, he will start to hv a little blocked nose which we give relief in the form of Zyrtec D.

My hubby and I are not tall, only 1.6m and we belong to the small built type. My elder boy is now 1.65m tall with very lean body (can see his 6 packs), weighs only 47kg.

When we first started to use nasal spray then, we were also apprehensive about steroid usage in the long run.

I do not know whether my elder boy is considered to hv suffered from stunt growth due to the 2 years of nasal spray. But I do know, if we did not persist with the treatment then, the consequences might be worse due to congested nose leading to disrupted sleep.

My younger boy has a more sensitive nose than the elder brother. Was hospitalised twice due to excessive mucus when he was a baby. He does not want to be on the nasal spray treatment or the ventolin treatment (cant talk sense into him, sometimes). So he takes Zyrtec-D every morning. We also realised that he cant eat too much peanuts and sugar in any form.

We do not eat deep fried food at home. Occasionally we eat such food when we dine out.

I believe exercise will help greatly. My elder boy is healthier eversince he started sec sch in which PE is more intensive than those sessions in pri sch.

Generally, to improve the nose sensitivity issue, we hv to hv exercise+diet+medication all carried out at the same time.

jennifer,
u r in 40s, elder boy oredi 16yrs old! U muz hv married young! so envious.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Fri, 03 May 2013 02:11:09 GMT

sharonkhoo — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:11:09 GMT

Different people have different triggers even though the manifestations may be similar, so it’s important to identify the triggers. If you just avoid everything that everyone suggests, life can be unncessarily restricted. My older daughter went through several years from about 9-13 yrs when she had constant runny nose and cough due to post-nasal drip during several months of each year. We were living in a country with seasons, and it turned out that tree pollen was the trigger (we discovered by empirical observation!). So she took daily loratadine (generic name for Claratyn) during those months as she couldn’t avoid the trees! Somehow, it stopped happening after those few years.

I used to suffer with the same symptoms from childhood (I was asthmatic too) until early adulthood, and developed severe eczema as well in my 20s. It was because of the eczema that I had the skin tests and discovered that my triggers were mainly dust mite and dust of various kinds. Again, after a few years of steroid creams and oral antihistamines, the severe symptoms stopped and now I only get mild symptoms now and again.

So do try to identify triggers - could be environmental (what you breathe or touch) or dietary. Sometimes, you can find out by closely observing what sets the symptoms off. Once you know, you can try to avoid.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Fri, 03 May 2013 01:27:17 GMT

cindyll — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:27:17 GMT

Gd Morning

Anyone has any good TCM to recommend? Thank you

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Fri, 03 May 2013 01:20:17 GMT

Jennifer — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:20:17 GMT

icy_mama:
my 9yo ds has the same problem since 3yo. once he move into another room with different temp and/or humidity, the sneezes start and thereafter blocked nose. he's always breathing thru his mouth.

at 4yo, i brought him to kk. they did a prick test (negative for food allergy and normal allergens) and recommended sprays into his nose but dh was worried that those steroids may affect his manly growth. said we rather put up with the symptoms as he may grow out of them.
we got used to him using up tissue papers like his father owns the mill.
recently, at 9yo, he still hasn't outgrown it apparently. we brought him to a doc at paragon medical center. he wanted to laser his adenoid. we even booked surgery. on second thoughts we went back to kk. doc there totally poohpooh surgery, said it's unnecessary and solely for financial gains. he convinced us that those nasal sprays are totally safe even for long term use. we cancelled surgery.
for 2mths since on nasal spray, his symptoms has lessened. tissue paper usage has also eased.
we have to go back next month for a skin prick test to confirm what kind of environmental allergy he has.

My elder boy has a very sensitive nose. He could detect what we just ate behind his back when we talked to him

At first, we thought that was cute. Until he started to be sick all the time.

In the end, he was put on nasal spray and oral Clarinase for 2 years.

After which, I brought him to see TCM for another issue - peeling skin on palms n soles.

Now he is 16 years old. On n off when the weather turns too cold, he will start to hv a little blocked nose which we give relief in the form of Zyrtec D.

My hubby and I are not tall, only 1.6m and we belong to the small built type. My elder boy is now 1.65m tall with very lean body (can see his 6 packs), weighs only 47kg.

When we first started to use nasal spray then, we were also apprehensive about steroid usage in the long run.

I do not know whether my elder boy is considered to hv suffered from stunt growth due to the 2 years of nasal spray. But I do know, if we did not persist with the treatment then, the consequences might be worse due to congested nose leading to disrupted sleep.

My younger boy has a more sensitive nose than the elder brother. Was hospitalised twice due to excessive mucus when he was a baby. He does not want to be on the nasal spray treatment or the ventolin treatment (cant talk sense into him, sometimes). So he takes Zyrtec-D every morning. We also realised that he cant eat too much peanuts and sugar in any form.

We do not eat deep fried food at home. Occasionally we eat such food when we dine out.

I believe exercise will help greatly. My elder boy is healthier eversince he started sec sch in which PE is more intensive than those sessions in pri sch.

Generally, to improve the nose sensitivity issue, we hv to hv exercise+diet+medication all carried out at the same time.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Fri, 03 May 2013 00:50:58 GMT

vinegar — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:50:58 GMT

it is true that exercise will help.

In my teenage yrs,I used to hv morning sneezing,stopped when i started to swim.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Fri, 03 May 2013 00:48:04 GMT

sleepy — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:48:04 GMT

Sensitive nose and cough often go hand in hand because cough is triggered by postnasal drip. Go google on postnasal drip.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Fri, 03 May 2013 00:39:37 GMT

icy_mama — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:39:37 GMT

my 9yo ds has the same problem since 3yo. once he move into another room with different temp and/or humidity, the sneezes start and thereafter blocked nose. he’s always breathing thru his mouth.

at 4yo, i brought him to kk. they did a prick test (negative for food allergy and normal allergens) and recommended sprays into his nose but dh was worried that those steroids may affect his manly growth. said we rather put up with the symptoms as he may grow out of them.
we got used to him using up tissue papers like his father owns the mill.
recently, at 9yo, he still hasn’t outgrown it apparently. we brought him to a doc at paragon medical center. he wanted to laser his adenoid. we even booked surgery. on second thoughts we went back to kk. doc there totally poohpooh surgery, said it’s unnecessary and solely for financial gains. he convinced us that those nasal sprays are totally safe even for long term use. we cancelled surgery.
for 2mths since on nasal spray, his symptoms has lessened. tissue paper usage has also eased.
we have to go back next month for a skin prick test to confirm what kind of environmental allergy he has.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Fri, 03 May 2013 00:30:04 GMT

Nebbermind — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:30:04 GMT

iamcyb:
My son always has blocking nose problem, went to see the Specialist in NUH a few years ago. no improvement after taken medicine. later on we did not pay too much attention to it, because we thought that is quite normal as mother has the same problem.

However, recently we realised that could affect his brain development because of less oxygen, it might causes the bad memory and slow reaction and etc. Decided to revisit the doc ASAP.
Anybody has similar experience to share? Any good nose doc for children to recommend?

12 yrs old...donch think you need to teach him to breathe thru his mouth, ya?

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Fri, 03 May 2013 00:25:55 GMT

Ymy — Fri, 03 May 2013 00:25:55 GMT

For my DD case, why I think is bcos of milk / eggs as last year Dec she was quite ok. Did dot cough that frequently, no wet nose. So we reduce dosage then stop the sensitive nose medication. However , after Chinese New Year this year, everything came back, wet nose then cough. I review her diet, I stopped giving her milk powder last year end.

Beginning of this year, start giving her fresh milk with cereals for B/fast everyday.during CNY , she ate quite a lot of muffins, egg tarts, cakes, etc… ( all contain milk n eggs) . Then during that period , she also always ask me to cook noodles with eggs for lunch.
During this one month period, I totally did not give her milk n eggs. Can see some improvement. Only on the fourth week, the cough came back. But this time is due to throat infection. So she is on antibiotic now.
Looking back, when she is bb/ toddler , there were many times she would cough n vomit out the milk at night. The PD would give nebulizer, ventolin, flixotide to her. From 3-5 years old, she was on ventolin on n off. At that time, we do not know about this allergy thing. Then when she was is P1/P2 there r few occasion that she has ear infection. She is in P3 now. This is due to her wet nose , she always sniff in and does not know how to sniff out the mucus. Which then lead to ear infection.
The cleaning of nose by the ENT does help her to clear her mucus. This wil then lessen the symptom . For now, we won’t let her hv milk n eggs. But of course we will still allow some cakes , muffins once in a while.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Thu, 02 May 2013 14:36:13 GMT

vinegar — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:36:13 GMT

my 9yrs old ds oso has nose block problem.Giving him steroid nose spray if cannot recover after taking zytec/actified.

He’ll sneeze when there is change of temperature.

he drinks a glass of milk for b/fast.The milk intake is ok,right?sometx,he drinks soyabean or milo.

he rarely coughs. The nose block always starts whenever there is change of weather,wasn’t started from any cold/flu/running nose.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Thu, 02 May 2013 11:20:49 GMT

Ymy — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:20:49 GMT

My DD has the same problem. But not block nose. It started with running nose/wet nose first, then she will start to cough. On and off she will cough but not too serious. But can be quite irritating to hear her cough like that . Have seen PD n GP. Conclusion is she is allergy to certain food or dust mite. She is on sensitive nose medicine for abt two years till now. We adjust the dosage , when she is better , we reduce it.

We did not choose to do the skin allergy test as was told that not 100 % accurate.
Went to see ENT specialist at Mt E last month. He did a endoscope for her. Her case is not too serious as she does not hv block nose. So her case is food allergy/ intolerance. So for a month, the poor girl cannot eat all her favourite food . Milk, milo, bread, cake , eggs,biscuits , chocolate , noodle, chicken, etc… The doc also give her something to clean her nose. Went back to see him again this afternoon, we can slowly introduce back certain food to her one at a time. To see which food that cause the allergy. I think most likely is milk n eggs.
The doc advice all is bcos of the diet, so we cannot let her eat certain food daily even if she is not allergy to it. Must give variety of food .

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Thu, 02 May 2013 10:16:05 GMT

Jennifer — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:16:05 GMT

Increase the frequency of outdoor exercise to build up immunity system, pay attention to diet, remove possible allergens in the house, long term medication cannot be avoided, be it Western or TCM.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Thu, 02 May 2013 09:24:48 GMT

timtamfan — Thu, 02 May 2013 09:24:48 GMT

DD used to suffer from block nose at bedtime. Found that by removing milk from her diet, incidents reduced significantly. I also restrict her intake of oranges and papaya. Read somewhere that milk can cause mucus formation. Perhaps also research more on keeping environment dustfree to help allergic rhinitis sufferers. Hope this helps. I know it's very painful to see DC suffering

P.S. DD went to SGH ENT and was prescribed steroid nasal spray (which needed several hours to take effect and continuous use for a few days straight). Not a fan of long-term medication, so looked for alternative solutions.

Reply to Advice needed: 12y Boy blocking nose problem on Thu, 02 May 2013 09:01:07 GMT

MMM — Thu, 02 May 2013 09:01:07 GMT

Have you tried TCM?

My 11 yr old ds coughed for a long period of time and always have blocked nose. It’s like he never really recovered. Brought him to GP and they gave him ventolin to help him to breathe better. He does not have history of asthma.

Subsequently we brought him to Ma Kwang where the physician advised on the diet and also prescribed him with medication. We only saw the physician for 2 months and didn’t go for follow up visits. At the same time, ds also changed his diet. Eg. no cold drinks at all, less fast/ fried food. These days, we seldom hear him cough in the morning and the blocked nose problem is less frequent too.