Dd is complaining of pain when she wees.

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I'm thinking cystitis but she has no other symptoms. No fever, nothing. I've had a look to see if she'd irritated herself by not wiping properly after going to the loo and there's no sign of redness, just the soreness when weeing. Does she need to see a gp or are there over the counter things I can get (she's four in 2 weeks time)?

I don't think she can take the sachets. They just deal with symptoms and not cause anyway.

GP I think - in meantime lots of fluids and calpol. Poor her - it's grim.

Thanks for that...I'm not even sure if she's at the Calpol stage, she has no pain in between wees. Maybe it isn't even cystitis. She tends to drink too much juice (though I water it down - I don't think our childminder does) maybe her wee is really acidic?

Due to the risk of mild, but cumulative kidney damage, if my DD complains of this I always take her to GP. With a pot of wee so all they have to do is dip and do a quick exam. Your OOH service should be able to see her today.

I am always very over cautious with UTIs. Partly because they can cause kidney damage and also because DSD had one and we waited overnight. By the next day she was in agony and that trip to OOH has mentally scarred us all if nothing else. Trying to get a five year old to do a sample in a tiny clinic toilet, screaming with a full waiting room and two other kids. Argh.