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8yo blood in urine

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whenthelightsgoout123 · 23/02/2024 20:45

Hello everyone

I'm being sent round in a circle at the moment by the gp and continence clinic with my son 8yo.

A little back history:
Son has autism, severe hypermobility and also awaiting adhd assessment. He suffers with faitgue, tiredness, painful joints, recurrent mouth ulcers (every few weeks, 3 or 4 at once time), eczema on his face (more so in the summer), suffers with croup several times a year, panic attacks at school and has also been anaemic (very shocked as he eats really well).

My son has been under the continence clinic for a good few years for day and night wetting. The day wetting improved but night wetting continued. We tried all sort of options; alarms and now he is on mediation (desmopressin).

Since August 2022 he has been on and off day wetting, he has spells where it gets worse, we send a urine sample in which always has blood ++ in his urine. It is sent to labs, no signs of infection apart from the blood,

Since Christmas 2023, he has had so many wet days (upto 10 changes a day). We have 3 sent urine samples, one came back with an infection with blood ++ and the other two just blood ++.

Gp is refusing to look into things more, continence have said GP needs to do the referral. The continence nurse feels something more is going on. I have done 3 econsult this week and just receive a text each time saying that the urine results came back with no infection but blood in urine, speak to continence clinic.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this. Im wondering if I need to put a complaint into the gp (sorry for the long rambling post!)

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whenthelightsgoout123 · 24/02/2024 07:24

I just checked his results and blood has been present in his urine since 2019

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Changeagain3 · 01/09/2024 19:35

Hi, came across you post while searching for my child symptoms.

Did you find out any more ?

My child is autistic, medical anxiety, general anxiety, hyper mobility and under continence team too.

Lots of UTI but today has blobs of blood in urine. Denies pain (but this could be due to anxiety about doctors), no temp but does suffer general fatigue

Will take sample to GP tomorrow. Just wondering if you found out what was causing your child symptoms?

whenthelightsgoout123 · 01/09/2024 19:56

Hello @Changeagain3

I'm sorry your son is having similar issue. We still haven't found the exact cause but we are awaiting an appointment with rheumatology as they think he may have an autoimmune condition and this may possibly be causing it.

Defintely take the sample to the gp.it takes a long time to get anywhere unfortunately x

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