I should start by saying I have called surgery and am waiting on a call back from GP so not relying solely on a diagnosis from mumsnet but am feeling a bit concerned.
DD11 has always been prone to sore throats and coughs and can quite often get viral tonsillitis once a month, we now seem to have a permanent cough and sore throat which doesn’t ever seem to come to anything but is just niggly and there, the current one she has had for the last couple of weeks and she did end up having a few days off school for it at the end of last week…
I have just put all these bugs down to immune systems being still off from lockdown and obviously just came out of the summer hols, she has also gone from a tiny village primary school to a huge secondary so I’ve not thought too out of the ordinary.
This morning when having her breakfast she said she had a “sore tummy at the bottom” I said to her that it was probably the strain of coughing and she might have pulled a muscle she asked me to write her a letter to excuse her from PE (unusual for her as her favourite)
She went into school fairly happy but have had a phone call from her about an hour ago to day her stomach has got much worse and she “need to take deep breaths sometimes” I’ve told her to go to the office and speak to them, I’ve phoned the GP and in the interim googled!!!
Would I be right with these symptoms including the lingering cough to think it could be pneumonia?
I should add she is very happy and confident at new school so not a nervous tummy and that also not COVID, we have had that in the house twice now and routinely test.