dd2 has started to limp today

[em83]

right my dd2 is 2 year old, today she fell asleep on the settee and woke up crying and pointing to her leg, she got down on the floor and started limping, she has now been doing this most of the day and crying, she has been in bed since 7pm and when she is asleep she is keeping her "limping foot" straight and doesnt seem to have changed position in bed like she normally does
anyone know what this couls be, i dont think she has fell or knocked it,im getting worried.

[JellyBelly10]

If this continues then you must insist on getting x-rays done of her hips to rule out Perthes. Maybe it's just because my child has it so I know a lot about it that I'm focusing on Perthes too much!? But a sporadic limp with "no medical explanation" is worrying and is exactly how my son started! And how could the doctor say there's no explanation when they didn't do x-rays!!?? Or did they? Well good luck with it, hope it just goes away on its own, but if it doesn't then don't be afraid of badgering your GP to get you sent for x-rays urgently to rule out anything sinister!

[em83]

hiya, thanks for replying ! my dd is only 2 so cant explain where pain is.
she woke uo at 7.10 am and couldnt even get out of bed, crying and pointing to her leg and foot, i took her straight to a&e at the local hospital when we got there she made a liar of us and was running all over
however when we were there i noticed the little toe on her left foot was all red and looked sore, doctor didnt seem to worried and told us there is no medical explanation for her sudden limp, she is her normal self, eating and drinking well,
came back from hospital she has still been walking funnily, and last hour or so is really twisty and tired , will see how sh goes later....

[JellyBelly10]

Is she able to tell you which part of her leg is hurting? Hip, knee, ankle? Has she recently had a virus like chicken-pox or a bad cold? Because a viral infection such as chicken pox can result in an infected hip-joint, an irritable hip which can be really painful and the pain can radiate down the leg and perhaps be hard for the child to explain where it is coming from.
It could of course be something really trivial and short-lived which will be gone by the end of today, and I hope it is. However a limping child should never be ignored as it can denote something more serious. As the mother of a child with Perthes disease I would certainly want to rule that out! My son started limping sporadically over a short period of time and it wasn't until the limping got so bad that I couldn't possibly ignore it anymore that I took him for x-rays which showed he had Perthes disease, a condition where the blood supply to the top of the femur stops, the bone dies and crumbles away leaving the child with no "ball" of the ball and socket joint. My son is now facing major surgery in September, with a very long recovery, to attempt to hold the leg in the correct position over the coming years so that when the blood supply returns and the bone attempts to re-grow, it will hopefully grow in the right shape. I hope that your daughter's limp is nothing as serious and life-altering as this because it's devastating. But it all started with a sudden limp. So whilst it is extremely unlikely that your child has Perthes (as it's rare, only one in about 20,000 children), it's definitely something to consider and to get ruled out. I hope that by the time you read this your child has stopped limping and all is good again, but it's definitely worth ruling out the more sinister causes as soon as possible. Let us know what happens, and good luck.