My 2 year old is limping when he walks.

[SagacityNell]

I slipped down the stairs yesterday while holding him. He was fine, just scared. I am a tad sore today. However, he has limped a lot today. He is in NO pain, i have manouvered every bit of his leg in every possible way and he has just let me do it! here is no bruising and no swelling. He has pushed against me, he has jumped...basically he has been a normal 2 yo apart from limping when he is walking.

Am loathe to go to A&E for something causing no trouble whatsoever but the limp is troubling me. wwyd?

[lifeinagoldfishbowl]

Apparently a friends little one did this recently and although they ignored it - the mum did get a little worried when it persisted for several hours.

However the dh said to the child that if they had a poorly leg they wouldn't be able to go swimming and suddenly all was well with the leg - seems the child in question liked the attention

So maybe try and tempt him with something to see if it's a proper injury then pop by the drop in centre :)

[SagacityNell]

I have tried all the usual things like playing the "get you" game, running round the garden. It seems to be just a limp

DH and I are at stale mate, i want to take him to drop in 2mo if he is still doing it but he says leave it.

[pirateparty]

Take him to get checked out.

Limping children are taken seriously. Might not be anything but definitely needs to be looked at.

Let us know how it goes.

[littleshinyone]

Hmm. how about leaving it over night- if it doesn't hurt, its unlikely to be anything more than a bump. If it gets better , brill. If it gets worse, you have the options of gP out of hours or A&E over the weekend or GP early next week.

Maybe worth a dose of calpol, as kids find it hard to verbalise discomfort sometimes?

hope he gets better soon!

[SagacityNell]

I have left it for now. He has limped today again but was also jumping normally - to my eye.

I bathed him this morning, there is NO pain whatsoever anywhere from his hip right down to his little toe. Or none caused from my investigations which he found highly amusing. He has no bruises anywhere, no swelling.

It's just troubling me that he is limping for seemingly no reason.

I hate these situations where i don't know what o do for my own children!

[pantaloons]

My DD fell down 4 steps at the beginning of August. I took her to get checked out as she was limping. At the walk in centre the nurse twisted and flexed and said if it was broke she would be screaming.

The next day she was still limping so we took her to a minor injuries unit which was shut the night before. They x rayed her and she had broken her 5th met along the outside of her foot. They put her in a temporary cast until she was due at fracture clinic 2 weeks later. In the 2 week wait, she got through 3 casts as she was still runnning, jumping and riding her bike. At the fracture clinic they didn't bother to recast it as she took weight on it, but she is still limping towards the end of the day.

So I suppose what I am saying is it's probably worth getting an xray!

[SagacityNell]

oh no! that's not what i wanted to hear!


How is she now?

[pantaloons]

She's ok on the whole now, just towards the end of the day if we have done a lot, she will start to limp and moan a bit. To be honest she was really brave and the hardest thing about the whole business was trying to keep her off it for 48 hours to let the temporary cast dry!

She was 3 while she was in the cast and had a bike for her birthday. It was possibly one of the funniest things I have seen when she was trying to ride it with the damn cast on.