Allergic Reaction to Enzymes? Help!

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Hi,

I mostly lurk here but I have a question maybe Dana or someone else

can help me with. I think my son might be having an allergic

reaction to enzyme. I've been giving him son enzymes for viral

reasons. He won't take the Virastop because of the taste so we've

been giving him Kirmans Enzyme Complete (because it contains

protease enzymes). He responded really well at first but a week

after we increased his dose to 7 per day he got a fever and a

horribly itchy rash all over. I thought it was unrelated to the

enzymes because I haven't heard of getting a fever from enzymes.

The fever dissapeared after several days but the rash continued for

over a week. The poor kid was contantly doped up on benadryl, which

did seem to help. He also stopped drinking during all this and we

had to force liquid down him each day. We finally completely stopped

the enzymes (after this had been going on for a week) and he started

getting better. We tried to start back on 2 enzymes/day yesterday

and now my son is itchy, has a low grade fever, a cough and a runny

nose. Can this be an allergic reaction to the enzyme? Thanks for

any help.

Sissy