Yesterday morning, I took Kayleigh to see an allergist to try to figure out why she has an almost constant cough and runny/stuffy nose. I PROMISE that I will make this as short as I can, but it is a long story. On the plus side, Kayleigh doesn't have allergies. On the down side, the doctor said that he thinks that she has an overactive immune system. That means that when Kayleigh got her first cold, her body sent a bunch of white blood cells to her sinuses. This clogged her drainage tubes, and then the medicine couldn't completely kill all of the bacteria that had originally caused the infection. So, next the bacteria would rebuild in her sinuses and start the process all over again.
Kayleigh will be on a bunch of medicines for the next couple of months. She has three antibiotics that she'll take one after another (repeating medicines 2 and 3). She is on a steroid for the next ten days, too. On top of all of that, the doctor wants her on a nasal spray indefinitely. Hopefully the medicines will get her well before we both go back to school in August. The goal of the nasal spray is to keep her nasal passages open so that if/when she gets sick in the fall the medicine will be able to get to the infection, rather than be hindered by clogged passages.
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