Long story here but I'll try and summarise with a timeline...
3 weeks ago - My nearly 3yo son started being very tired during the day. Less enthusiasm for activities. Generally poor/overtired mood - kind of like he was living in thay last half hour before bed time permanently (not making a lot of sense, big temper, yawning non stop). Swollen tonsils. Trouble falling asleep, and then shorter sleeps yet very exhausted. We assumed it was just a bit of a mild virus and decided to wait it out. One thing to note is that his mood seems to improve with calpol which makes me think there is some discomfort.
2 weeks ago - He developed a mild cough, but more alarmingly woke up with dried blood on his mouth and blood on his pillow. This is on a Sunday so we take him to an out of hours doctor and they say to continue waiting it out but if it's not resolved within the week take him to his GP.
1.5 weeks ago - No improvements, so we go for a GP visit. The GP notes how swollen his tonsils are and ptescribes amoxycillin, and does a throat swab.
3 days ago - We head back to our GP because the antibiotics had minimal effect (only noticeable change was cough reduced) His throat swab came back normal, and our has now orderered bloods to check things like thyroid, liver, kidney, glucose, iron, etc.
Yesterday - Little one woke up itching his whole body vigorously. We gave him some antihistamines which curbed the itching a fair bit. Later in the day he developed a red rash on his thighs (looks like hives potentially but hard to tell), and several other individual red spots on his body. It looks like anywhere that he scratches is kind of swelling up a bit...
Today - He is so lethargic and angry. He's got mlre red spots, but not as big a cluster as yesterday. The spots seem to go away easily, but new ones pop up.
Honestly I'm just at a loss for what to do and looking for advice! Obviously we will get the bloods done, and we'll keep up the antihistamines for now as they seem to stop the immediate itching. But I'm getting really worried now, especially with the rash. It sucks to see your child not themselves at all. Any advice??