Allergies in children Allergies in children Your child is sniffling, sneezing and coughing. You suspect it's a cold, so you treat your child with cold remedies. After a few weeks the symptoms are still there when a normal cold should have run its course. If this happens to your child, you may want to have your child checked for allergies.
Allergies are very common in children and are often times mistaken for the common cold.
If a cold seems to linger for more than a week, it's time to suspect something more. Signs of allergy in children are not always so easy to detect. They may have different reactions to allergens than an adult would. Sometimes they will display all of these symptoms. For air borne allergies the symptoms are runny nose, sneezing, stuffed nose, itchy watery eyes, lethargy, fatigue and asthma.