4yo fainting

[teenagedreams]

Today was the third time in about 10 months.

First time was when she had a vaccine, second was when she had a fake tattoo applied (???) and third today was when she hurt herself on a slide in a play place, slight miniscule friction burn.

She's not sqeamish as she picks scabs and shows me the blood and likes to watch hospital/emergency type programmes. Should I be concerned at such a young age. DP is a fainter but at the sight of blood and when he was much older.

Anyone?

Isnt there a condition where the person faints if they have a shock, even a mild surprise like someone saying "hello" when they're not expecting it. It sounds like it could be that.

Someone more knowledgeable than me may well be along shortly though.

Well - I'd certainly go to the GP with it

Thank you for the replies, been to gp today.

I fainted quite a lot as a slightly older child, from about 11. GP put it down to low blood pressure- what did your GP say?

STARS has lots of info about different types of fainting. Hope both you and DD are OK, it's really quite frightening as a parent watching your child faint and not knowing why.

Thank you for the link, useful stuff on there.

GP has referred her to a peadiatrician as she was concerned about her age and that she slept for a good hour afterwards.

A friend's boy has something called reflex anoxic seizures which sound similar to what your dd is experiencing.IIRC this is sth you usually grow out of and although dramatic is not serious .

Narmada - thanks, it does sound very similar without the clonic-tonic type seizure. Good to know they grow out of it.

The child i am thinking of doesn't have the tonic-clonic thing either. hope you get answers from the paed :)

My dd2 has fainted twice once at 5 and at 6 both were after injections! Nightmare and very scary... Both times they called a dr immediately and they monitored her until her heart rate returned to normal but she was ok. It took about three days for me to recover!