You know sometimes when there's no convenient "box" to put your child's illness into?? Well I have somewhat of a dilemma about what to do with DS2 and worry at sounding so vague if I take him to the doctors. Will try to keep it short:
He is 9, and when he was young has had various problems with putting on weight, had chest problems, recurrent tummy aches and had lots of doctors investigations. In the end they just put it down to fast metabolic rate and "one of those things". I have posted about him before but in relation to answering other people's queries.
Anyway... over the past few weeks he's had a number of episodes of suddenly getting very out of breath when not doing very much, gasping for a few minutes with the bit where his windpipe is being very sucked in when he breathes. He had one of these episodes on Thursday, but he has also gradually over the last week or so, losing his appetite, not eating very much, complaining of tummy aches, low-grade temperature but nothing massively raised (37.5 - 38.5 type), tired, wheezy type cough that's dry and whistly, odd periods of actually being wheezy (he doesn't have an inhaler or anything) and just no spark.
As I said it all seems so vague to go to the doctor with, wondering if anyone has any ideas??
thanks in advance!