Are these bruises normal in a four-year-old or worth checking?

[TeaAndSymumthy]

Do these bruises look normal? He’s 4 and although he’s a bit crazy.. I don’t often see him bashing his legs on things. His legs seems to always look the same - not sure if I’m imagining it or whether some of these bruises just never seem to go away. They’ve had these reddish brown bruises on for months and months. He recently went through a couple of months of constantly complaining about pain in his leg, he said the pain was in the bones and it would wake him at night he would be in hysterics, and he would also get it in the day most days, at one one point he was limping. He doesn’t complain about his leg hurting at the moment and hasn’t done for a couple of weeks now. But the bruises seem to be constant and there’s so many!

Does this look normal for a 4yo or should I take him to get checked? I don’t want to go to the GP and they simply think I’ve gone because my child gets bruises in a completely normal place/way 😅

Hi, get them checked asap. My DC had ITP at a similar age and that showed up in a similar way.
There’s never any harm in going to your GP about something like this.

Thanks, here some better images. The big one he said he bumped his knee so explains that one but it has a weird almost blood vessel popped kind look in the middle which I’ve got seen on a regular bruise before.

I would go to the GP. That is a lot of bruises even for an adventurous child.

I agree about having him checked over just to be on the safe side.

Thanks all, my friend agrees I should take him to be seen. I’ll ring the GP when they open ☺️

I think his knees look a bit swollen and I wouldn’t expect that amount of bruising so I’d get him checked asap. Hope it all goes ok.

Went to the GP, booked for bloods next week. They’re not too concerned because he’s feeling well in himself but they did say they wouldn’t expect them to last so long, plus the leg pain he had been having for months was odd too!

Glad you got an appointment, fingers crossed it’s nothing major.

We called my child “the walking bruise” when he was younger as he was always going at 100kph, falling off things, so crazy adventurous.
He was always bruised BUT they would clear up in 2-4 days (to be replaced with new ones), and even he never had this many at once.
Good idea to go to the Dr.

I think this is more than is normal and right to get it checked out.

Hope it’s all ok!