Please tell me I'm not the only one on this ride.....my son is 14 months old and the illnesses have been relentless. I have 2 older children (7 and 11) and they were never ever this ill. Constantly being told at the G.P "it's viral" so I feel like he's continuously on calpol and nurofen. He's not in nursery but we have activities everyday.
After A&E on Thursday I'm now wanting to pursue further testing. He was ill at Christmas, ill on his first birthday, ill 3 weeks later on a weekend away, ill about 2 weeks ago, after 8 days the G.P decided to try antibiotics (only 2nd time in his life) as he just was not improving. He picked up for 3-4days and then spiked a temp again, had mottled skin, wouldn't bare weight on his legs, so I rang the g.p back who sent us to A&E.
That was a completely pointless trip as they checked chest/ENT/urine and none showing signs of bacterial infection so once again......its viral. The Dr wouldn't even speak to paediatrics as he scored fine despite the temperature, he also agreed his skin was mottled and it meant he was definitely fighting something off.
He's still unwell, still running a temp, he's been like this most of his life. Is it true this is post covid children? He's still breastfed too and you'd think that would help but here we are. I'm requesting bloods now - I rang my boss to say I may need to leave work early today as he won't eat/drink but will breastfeed and there's no way I'm leaving him to starve. She then started telling me about her neice who was the same as my son and has in fact being diagnosed with leukemia. I'm freaking out.
For reference we've been to the g.p 8x in his short life, had 2 out of hours appointments, and 1 hospital trip. My older children haven't had this many appointments....combined in their entire lifetimes. They just never get ill so this is new. AIBU that this is not normal and my son shouldn't have constant viral infections? I should add the g.p appointments have been when I'm at my wits end, I don't go for nothing, so he's been poorly in between those appointments as well. Thanks for reading and apologies for the waffle. I'm just so done with seeing my boy unhappy.