To be concerned ? 5 year old with alopecia and not feeling well.

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My 5 year old has not been right for 3 weeks. Started with just being over sensetive crying at the drop of a hat and a bit tired. Then started having poo accidents for 6 days culminating with diarrhoea running down his legs in a park. After that no more accidents but a day later he threw up everywhere. He has since been complaining on and off of a sore tummy (I'm thinking wind) and has developed red rings around his eyes and looks very pale which just makes him look really ill ! He has also had really dry skin on his face and cracked lips. In between all this he has been running around and fairly normal but just not himself. I took him to the Drs who suggested a virus and hayfever together and gave him antihistamines.

We then discovered he has 4 small bald patches of alopecia and he just doesn't look right to me. This really freaked me out and o took him back to the Dr who was very through but says he thinks he has bad a virus and it has just taken a lot out of him and has also referred him to the demonologist for the alopica. He said to come back if he isn't better in 2/3 weeks.

I don't know why but I have got myself really worried. My husband had already said he just thought he is really run down and something has just hit him hard so he isnt concerned. I just have this horrible feeling that something isn't right and I should get it checked ASAP.

He is my middle child and I'm not normally to crazy when it comes to my kids it's not a PFB thing.

Can anyone resaure me that their kids took a while to get over viruses or tell me if they had something similar and I need to push for blodd tests or something more.

@BarbariansMum

I had sudden onset coeliac at 28.. no issues then one day couldn’t keep food down.. went on for months like but it did just appear overnight!!

I also think coeliac, pretty much described me (except the poo down leg but it’s been very very close!!)

Thank you for the responses.

I do feel both Drs who saw him did take time and care over him especially when I went back the 2nd time but he was not given blood tests. I can understand that they won't give every sick kid they see full tests etc as well.

I am very interested in the celiac responses. I was reading up on alopica last night and it's a autoimmune disease and much more likely to occur if parent has an autoimmune disease which I do (psoriasis) but celiac is also in this group so that is something I am going to read up on.

Thank you for the responses they have made me feel more confident to follow my gut. I am going to leave him at least over the weekend and see how he is but if I'm still not happy in the next week I will take him back again even if I look like a paronoid mother. The 2nd Dr did say he couldn't find anything wrong but I knew him best and he could see I wasn't happy and that if I felt he doesn't improve bring him back.

I hope it proves to be nothing more than a bad virus OP but yes, go back next week if you feel you need to. One important piece of advice - I hope you dont mind - but if you do suspect coeliacs, do not take gluten out of his diet. Counterintuitive I know, but he needs to eat it until he's tested for antibodies, or you risk a false negative (it's also possible to be anti body negative and still have coeliacs but thats a story for another day).

Hello... How's it going? Is he getting better?