Our son spent some time in hospital recently after having an asthma episode during Halloween – nothing serious but the doctor at A&E decided his condition needed monitoring for a day or so and so kept him in for a little while. They did a range of allergy tests on our son and we discovered he is allergic to cat hair and dust mites – the cat hair can be sorted easily as we don’t own a cat, but tackling the dust mites is a more complicated area as every house has regardless of how clean and ‘dust free’ you assume you are.

I have stepped up the washing of the bed linen now to several times a week instead of weekly, which might seem over the top to many people who probably only think to wash their bed sheets once a month. I vacuum the mattresses and in his room, around the house, on a daily basis. The mites feed off the dead flakes of skin that we all shed in bed so that is what I have to keep on top of. We bought new mattresses for all the kids – a special one for James and something like a memory foam mattress for my two other sons who don’t suffer the asthma.

So far so good! with him now on a new course of treatment after a review on how we were doing things he is 100%, better than he has ever been, and the asthma has been totally arrested. Keeping him  warm in the winter now is a main concern – but to anyone with a similar problem…check those mattresses and sheets as the problem could be in the bed rather than in the air.

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I hope you all had a great Halloween and lots of fun collecting your sweets while trick and treating. Although most people in our area got into the spirit of things and happily dealt out tons of tooth-rotting items to the kids there were some who frankly need a dose of happy pills…

Of course it is up to the individual if they wish to participate in this tradition and those who wish not to make it clear by not putting up Halloween paraphernalia in their front windows – that makes it obvious to us parents accompanying our children that those homes are not to be approached. But we encountered those who openly advertise themselves as being a part of things and then growl at the kids when they knock on the door. One such woman did that last night – told the kids to get lost in a most unnecessary manner.

Telling kids to go away is one thing, pushing them roughly away from the door is another so when my kids came and told me about what she did I decided to show her what Halloween is all about. By the time we got back to her door she had taken down all the Halloween trappings from her front door and windows – what a sour puss – and this was only 7pm. I hope she has as much fun cleaning her front door as I had decorating it with a couple of eggs:)

She’d probably throw Santa and his reindeer out on their backsides!

 

 

 

 

 

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