Have been googling (well yahooing actually but ykwim!), I know I shouldn't but I cant find anything that corresponds with what the dr told me.
He had routine blood tests because since about easter he has become very lethargic and grumpy and miserable. He does have bursts of enegy sometimes but nothing like he used to be, he used to be manic! He also seems to quite often have tummy ache and I think he has lost weight, he is certainly much slimmer than he was. At first I put it down to the strain of school (hes an August baby and is struggling) but when it carried on all through the summer holidays I began to wonder if there was something physical behind it.
Anyway he had the blood tests and all are normal except the ALP. When I rang for the results I was told the dr just wanted to 'phone me, when he did he was very cagey and wouldn't say what levels were high at first just that it was one of the liver tests and it was nothing to worry about but he said now we've started looking into this we should follow it up so he made an appointment for monday (which I changed to this afternoon as DS1 is away next week). When I saw the Dr she said that he has probably been fighting an infection and this has caused his levels to be high. She wants to test again in 4 weeks to check they have returned to normal.
In my searching I have found things that say its quite common to have raised levels in children due to rapid bone formation (these are bone alp levels, are they different to liver alp? Would it show in these test results?) but nothing at all anywhere about infection possibly raising levels.
I'm not panicing about this I am just a bit confused! I know obviously the Drs are medically trained and I'm just searching web sites but I have lost faith in some of the Drs at my surgery and the other Dr's caginess hasn't helped.
I just wondered if there was someone who knows about this and could maybe explain a bit more please?
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DS1, 5, has raised alkaline phosphatase levels, anyone know anything about this?
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Pesha · 12/09/2008 23:06
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