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Learned something new about evolution of difficult child 2's bipolar
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 301342" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>With my son, the albuterol and allergy medications seem to play as much into it (if not more) than the allergies themselves. Plus- the use of steroids and my gut feeling is that all these they used on him as an infant and pre-schooler contributed. Now, I understand that depression and anxiety run in my family so the predisposition was likely there. But I still think these medications had something to do with it and the doctors are starting to consider that a little. They won't acknowledge it as a trigger yet but acknowledge that it makes things worse.</p><p></p><p>I am advocating now for parents to speak up about this stuff- to the pediatricians and psychiatrist researchers. I don't think it would account for all kids who turn into difficult child's, but there sure seems to be a high percentage that just coincidentally had allergy and asthmatic issues and were given the albuterol, steroids, and typical allergy medications.</p><p></p><p>What did it for me was noticing that my son was unstable only at the same times of year that he had been asthmatic as a young child and needed medications as a pre-adolescent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 301342, member: 3699"] With my son, the albuterol and allergy medications seem to play as much into it (if not more) than the allergies themselves. Plus- the use of steroids and my gut feeling is that all these they used on him as an infant and pre-schooler contributed. Now, I understand that depression and anxiety run in my family so the predisposition was likely there. But I still think these medications had something to do with it and the doctors are starting to consider that a little. They won't acknowledge it as a trigger yet but acknowledge that it makes things worse. I am advocating now for parents to speak up about this stuff- to the pediatricians and psychiatrist researchers. I don't think it would account for all kids who turn into difficult child's, but there sure seems to be a high percentage that just coincidentally had allergy and asthmatic issues and were given the albuterol, steroids, and typical allergy medications. What did it for me was noticing that my son was unstable only at the same times of year that he had been asthmatic as a young child and needed medications as a pre-adolescent. [/QUOTE]
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