DD (8) has often complained about her tummy hurting. Not all the time, and not with much distress. It used to coincide quite a lot with mealtimes when she didn’t like what was for dinner.
Recently she hadn’t mentioned it for a while and then had a phase of eating a lot of bananas and it started again, so we cut out bananas, which seemed to work after a while. But she has started saying it again. She says it doesn’t hurt when she is eating but does before and after. It never stops her from doing anything, she goes to school fine but then complains afterwards that her tummy was hurting at school. Sometimes I think she’s just hungry but has got a bit confused with signals, she doesn’t eat loads and is a very slow eater so we have reduced what we send her in with as she’d rather be playing with friends (the dinner ladies won’t let her go unless she’s finished all her food...)
She is generally very healthy, though quite farty, so I think something is disagreeing with her but I don’t know what. She drinks a lot of milk but always has so can’t really correlate it. Cutting out dairy would be really hard, but perhaps we could try to reduce how much she has.
I don’t know what the GP would do? Is it worth an appointment?