When 7-year-old Brock Elgin finished first grade at W.W. Robinson Elementary School in Woodstock in spring 2024, he had missed about 57 days of class.

What began that fall as a stubborn cough grew into constant congestion, ear infections, sinus infections and fatigue.

“Within a week of being there, he was sick,” said his mother, Anne Elgin, of Fort Valley. “Cough, congestion, you know, just constant runny nose, ear infections, sinus infections. When he would get sick, it would never go away.”

Elgin said her son ran low-grade fevers, missed class after class and saw the pediatrician “two and three times a week.” By January, she said, “I was super fed up.”

Doctors performed allergy tests and blood work to look for immune deficiencies.

“He was allergic to nothing,” Elgin said. “Grass, tr

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