My daughter is 2.5 years old. I posted on here a month ago saying she had an unexplained temperature... eventually after 2 GP visits a GP said her eardrum was red and prescribed amoxicillin, her ear cleared up and her temperature lowered slightly but remained around 37.5 within 3 days it’s went back up to 39+ and stayed there, at this point she started looking pale and was occasionally complaining of stomach pains. Needless to say I took her back to the GP who checked her urine (dipstick only) said that was clear, checked her over (ears, throat, tummy) evrything checked out except they recorded a high temp again, GP said next stage was to do a blood test so gave me a form. I went off and her temp went down again so I thought she was on the mend, a few days later it all starts up again, she woke up in the night crying her eyes out with a very high temp she looked so pale and by this point had lost a substantial amount of weight (mainly I assume due to the fact that she had barely eaten since all thisbstarted) so I drove her 45 minutes to the nearest hospital first thing to get her blood test, the GP didn’t tell me but apparently I needed to prebook this as it’s not straightforward with toddlers and their next appaoibtment was on 11th March. I pleaded with them at the children’s ward but they said no so in desperation I took her over to their a&e department. I asked for a blood test there and the paediatrician on call Just told reception no without even seeing her and put us on the GP out of ours list. He checked her over and said she sounded like she may have mild croup from the way she was breathing but otherwise was fine. I suggested anaemia, he said she would look even paler than this if she was anaemia, he suggested coeliacs but said it doesn’t quite fit and would need a blood test. He said although I’m saying she’s lost a lot of weight (which she seriously has, clothes I was about to take to the charity shop are now hanging off of her) she’s still within the range of her age. Since then she’s developed a slight night time cough over the past week, she just has bouts of coughing, several times now she’s coughed so hard she’s thrown up. In the day she’s all over the place one minute she’s got energy then she’s asking to go to bed. She still has a very high temperature especially at night. My other daughters had croup and this doesn’t have any of the telltale signs. Yesterday she woke up and had bloodshot eyes, I mean actually bloodshot with flecks of blood in them like some of the vessels had burst. The white of the eye was very red, again I called triage and visited the GP. I got a female GP this time who said she looked pale and suggested that her blood vessels in her eyes could possibly have burst from coughing but it was clearly concerning her, she wasn’t happy with her colouring or the fact that once again her temp was coming up at 38.8 in the office. She called the on call paediatrician and said my daughters colouring was off, her eyes were blood shot and she’d been to them several times in a one month period and each time she had a high fever, she said she wanted to see her blood test results so she could get an idea of what was going on. All the paediatrician could offer was to try and pull the blood test forward from the 11th March. So, it’s now 3:30am Saturday night and I’m in the spare bed with her now, as usual she’s woke up crying, saying her stomach hurts, coughing, high fever, blood red eyes and her weight... she’s barely eaten a thing today! (The GP said not to worry about the weight she will get it back on but how can I when she’s lost so much, they didn’t see her a month ago!). The last thing the GP said was if I haven’t heard from the hospital by next Wednesday to chase them... Wednesday?? So I’ve now got to carry on like this with her like this for another 4 days and even once the test is done we will have to wait for the results. I’ve never had to have a child’s blood test done before, I appreciate it’s harder than an adults and can see why no one wants to do it but to wait 3 weeks when she’s this unwell?? Surely GPs are only issuing these if they are absolutely necessary, god knows what can happen to a child in that time if it’s urgent. Her temp is 39.7 right now, she’s cuddled into me and she is SO poorly, from what I’ve read a temp this high could only be associated with her cough if it was a chest infection and everyone’s telling me her chest sounds fine, but she’s had all this before the cough anyway so it doesn’t add up. She’s spent most of today sleeping on the sofa. I’m getting so worried about her now and I feel like I’ve hit a brick wall, she’s not showing any signs of improving and doesn’t have much more weight to lose... if anyone’s reading this and has any ideas please help me.