Our bright bubbly cheeky 3.4 yr old dd became poorly exactly a week ago, high temp, shivering, crying/moaning, and begging to go to bed. Like most kids, she's never usually in any rush to get to bed. Despite calpol and nurofen at regular intervals her temp kept rising to 39c in between doses. Slightest runniness of nose, and she said she had a cough (not coughing at all), but can usually mean she has sore throat/cold when she says that. Also, when she got out of bed in the morning (2 or 3 days running) she said she couldn't walk. She could, but it obviously hurt her to. She said her knees hurt.
Took her to docs on Friday as temp was concerning us, doc checked her over in all the usual ways, "she has a virus, keep up with the meds, goodbye", usual.
She improved a bit over weekend, temp settled, and just had coldy symptoms and a bit of tiredness, laid herself on sofa for an afternoon nap, etc., plus was being v difficult and argumentative, which she usually is when she's getting a bit better after a cold.
Sent her to nursery on Monday. Picked her up and she was bright enough but they said she had been a bit teary and her nose was a bit messy. As soon as we got her home she fell asleep on sofa. (She got out of afternoon naps about 8 months ago.)
Last couple of days she's been at home with us, fairly chilled out, only brief trips out. She gets up fairly bright, then goes downhill throughout day, until she's exhausted by 5.30pm (her usual bedtime is about 9pm ~ we have a slightly different schedule to most). We' e had to our her to bed before 7pm the last 3 nights, with her begging to get there.
She's been eating less than usual, and drinking and weeing less (pooing as frequently as normal, but it's normal consistency), but not to extremes.
She's still having sharp differences in temperature. She often says she's cold and shivers, with chattering teeth, whilst her skin is warm. Wants blankets and closeness. But also very sensitive to touch. Complains wildly when I brush her hair, dress her, etc. usual symptoms of sore skin from a temperature maybe?
I think that covers it. We're taking her back to docs in the morning, but I just wondered if anyone has any thoughts? Or if their child is suffering anything similar at the moment? We are going through a hugely stressful time at the moment, selling our home and severely struggling business which we run with my parents, so maybe we're over paranoid, but we can't help being worried about our little sunshine as she's usually pretty hardy.
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3 year old been poorly for a week - your opinions please
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2mummies · 09/01/2013 22:40
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10/01/2013 18:52
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