Please help.
DD is nine, normally eats a good range of foods, swims, trampolines and is usually healthy. She does appear to be on the road to puberty, and is beginning to change shape.
She had a series of throat/chest/ ear infections since October. She was given about three lots of antibiotics and had a fair bit of time off school.
Since November she has been sent home from school a couple of times because she had fainted or gone very pale and felt sick. She feels sick all the time (it's just normal now) and is often a grey colour. One GP thinks she has water in her middle ear which is making her dizzy and has prescribed loratadine and a Nasal spray, as he thinks the water in her ear is caused by an allergy. The other GP just checks her pulse, temp, urine etc which are normal and says he doesn't want her to go through the trauma of a blood test. He thinks it is post viral and will sort itself out.
DD goes to bed propped up on four pillows every night due to nausea. I am now at wits end. She has no energy. I am not usually over anxious (more the school of benign neglect) but lost my mum last June, and seeing DD like this is driving me wild.
I am taking her back tomorrow to GP. Am going to ask for blood test (she is so pale I want to check iron) and perhaps allergy test. Does anyone have any ideas - what would you do???