neutropaenic toddler

[toadnotfrog]

does anyone have any experience of neutropaenia in a toddler?

My dd (2.5 years old) has had a two weeks of odd symptoms (fever, sore eyes, painful knee, limp, nose bleeds) but not been particularly unwell. She had some blood tests done today - full blood count & for inflammation (CRP/ESR) - the GP phoned me at 7pm this evening with the FBC results.

Her haemoglobin & platelets are good, everything else normal except neutrophils which were 0.7 which is very low. GP said she wants her seen by a paediatrician & said we should go into to A&E tonight if she develops a fever or tomorrow if she's otherwise okay tonight.

How worried should I be about the low level - Dr Google says anything

It's not something I know much about but didn't want your thread to go unanswered.

Step away from google (really!) it will not tell you anything tonight that will make any sense, use your energy to keep and eye on your dd a try and get some rest so you are in a fit state to speak with the paed tomorrow.

If you haven't already planned take a packed bag in the car with you as they may want you to stay while they work out what's causing it. Put some of your dd's toys in too (if she is neautrapenic you really don't want her playing with the hospital stuff unless it's been drowned in a ton of bleach (exagarating but you get my drift)). My dd is at a increased risk of infections from others (not neutrapenic) and we have since she was a few months old turned up with toys to avoid using the hospital ones.

Big and very unmnetty hugs for you and I hope you dd bounces back.

thank you so much for the reply.

Yes I will pack a bag. I'm all over the place, I should have thought of that.

We've been terrified of leukaemia because of the joint pain & nose bleeds - the doctor said she wasn't worried about that now because all the other levels were good. Most likely it is a post-viral thing but there are scary causes too.

How did it go??

This may not be relevant to you, but a few years ago my DD had transient neutropenia, which I believe was caused by antibiotics (she was at the time being tested for strange symptoms which turned out to be atypical strep - no sore throat). It corrected itself within about a month. Has your DD been on antibiotics recently?