My 10 year old daughter has always been a bit sensitive. She gets this thing when she's ill where she panics and thinks she's going to faint. She's done it a couple of times in public and she has been ill a few hours later.
She also does it when she's very scared. She panics, screams that she's going to faint, goes very very white, very shaky and has the most appauling bad breath.
Two weeks ago she had one of these incidents in school. There was no reason for it, she was playing with friends when she felt her legs go from under her, she said she felt as though she'd just come off a merrygoround. Teachers said she was very very white, shaky and her hands were cold and clammy. I went to pick her up, but a couple of hours later she was absolutely fine.
Last night she disappeared for a while, then came in to say she'd had another one. She had sat down on her bed and breathed as I had told her to do. But now the whole thing has frightened her and she admits that she is worried about it all the time now and doesn't want to do any physical activity in case she faints.
I'm wondering if they are due to anxiety or should I make an appt with the doctors? Could it just be a sign of growing up?