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Twice in the past 2 weeks my 5 year old daughter has come top me complaining of a sore tongue. Over the next hour or so she has had a mild intermittent dry cough as well as seeming to have to do an exaggerated saliva swallow… i.e gulping a bit. After an hour or a bit more these symptoms have gone again. She has had no rashes and other than looking a little pinker than usual and being a bit clingy there are no other symptoms. She had no cold or cough before the onset. On the first occasion, 2 weeks ago, she had eaten some crisps about 2 hours earlier, a brand that she has never had before, to my knowledge. This evening she was also eating crisps that she had never had before. I was eating peanuts at the same time.

When she was younger she did have a problem with a chronic cough and used an inhaler. When she used the inhaler I think it was the preventer one that worked and I never thought the other one (oops can’t remember what it was called) made any difference. She also went through phases of having a rash on her face that we could never quite figure out. I always suspected she had an allergy rather than asthma but she’s been healthy as can be for the past year so I presumed she’d just grown out of it. But these latest episodes have concerned me. I am worried that it could be a sign of bigger allergy problems to come.
Any ideas? Does this mild reaction sound familiar to anyone or am I just being a neurotic mommy?!