High blood calcium in 1 year old.

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DD2 had a strange "episode" on Monday where she went floppy, blue lips, shivering but felt very hot whilst in the swimming pool. She was floppy for about a minute and the shivering and blue lips continued for about 5 minutes. She remained hot and I thought it was best to get her checked even though by that time she was fine. At UCC they gave Calpol and Ibuprofen to reduce fever but otherwise one were fine (aside from an initially low HR, but it was thought it was a poor reading although it was done twice). They wanted to get a urine sample so we attached one of those bags but after 3 hours there was still no wee and I realised she hadn't done a wee for about 6 hours. She was refusing water and solid food but would breastfeed. They sent us over to children's A&E. At A&E they said her throat was red and thought it could be the start of a throat infection, causing the fever, which caused a febrile convulsion (also an absent seizure), and that could be what was making her refuse food and water. She was breastfeeding but wasn't that interested. Whilst in A&E they observed a rash that didn't completely blanch so they decided to do a blood test. They sent us home and called later to say the bloods were fine. Yesterday (Tuesday) she was much better, no fever but still a bit off food. Today I took her to the GP about something else, however on the way I noticed what looked to be hand, foot and mouth so got the doctor to check that too, which he has confirmed. I told him about what happened on Monday and he looked at the blood test results and noticed that her calcium level is high. He said he was surprised that they said the results were ok. Anyway, he's asked for the blood test to be repeated but it's a 4 week wait at the hospital to have it done.

I googled high calcium which was stupid! But now I'm worrying. Is there anything minor that could cause a temporary high calcium level? Just to add that DD was born at 33 weeks, she has slow weight gain (she's currently 7.5kg at just over a year) and she has had continuous coughs, colds viruses and infections since October last year. She is still under consultant care and her consultant has mentioned testing her for anaemia as this could be why she's susceptible to illnesses. Otherwise she is a very happy girl and there are no concerns with her development.

Any ideas or experiences which might help to reassure me?

One other thing I forgot to add is that she's on a dairy free diet as we think she has CMPA.

Hi village - have name changed for a thread (usually sunshineandlaughter) so sorry to hear you are still struggling with your dd's health - it's one thing after another isn't it! Can't really answer your medical question but can offer sympathy, it's hard trying to piece together the unknowns isn't it trying to work out what might be really important and what might be just one odd blood test.
I know calcium levels are affected by kidneys, vitamin d and heart so maybe if she has an infection of one of those things currently it might be temporarily high. The blue lips and low hr would make me want to make sure her heart was checked it.
It's most likely just an infection, as I know you know, but I can see why you are worried and want to understand it.

I think you have a SAts monitor for your dd1? CAn you use that to check if dd2s hr is normal now? Is she otherwise ok today?

Hello! Thank you for replying. How are your DDs doing? Are you any further on with finding answers about DD2s health?

I do have a date monitor but that was what they used at UCC that gave the low HR but when they checked with the tape about an hour later it was okay. So they think the Sats monitor wasn't overly accurate. They had to do it on her toe as her fingers were too small. I may try again at some point to see.

I think the reason I'm concerned is because the GP seemed concerned. Normally he's very blasé.

I hope you're okay.

He's probably just concerned because he can see it's high but you were told it was ok.
Not sure if you can where you are but could you phone the a and e to ask them about it? Say you were discharged and told bloods ok but your gp was concerned about the high calcium? They might be able to tell you why they said it was ok?

My dd2 is ok thanks - due to have an adenoid op soon to help her breathing. She's been much better since we went on prophylactic antibiotics for that but still gets ill loads and also small. My oh took the job abroad too so leaving me 3 days a week on my own with them.

Luckily these babies have their mummies to go through the joys of the NHS with them!

Oh no, that's so rough for you. I hope things are better generally though.

That's a good idea about phoning A&E. I might see if I can do that tomorrow.