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Blue lips in 2 year old

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Wilkiepedia · 30/03/2009 08:23

DS has always got blue lips whenever it is slightly colder than normal from being a young baby.

I never thought much of it but my sis keeps urging me to go to the GP about it.

It only happens if there is a chill in the air or if he has been outside and it is cold. But they go very purple. Even in the house if he just has a t-shirt on and the heating isn't on they go bluey.

He displays no other signs of being cold other than cold hands.

Do you think it is just a reaction to differences in heat or should I take him to GP? What else could it be?

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LadyGooGoo · 30/03/2009 08:39

My Ds has this too - Got worried and mentioned to nurse. They said was it coming out of bath **and other cold times, if so not to worry.

He's now 3 and v rarely happens even though he insists on running around naked from the waist down. I link it to the fact he was a very lean 2 year old so didn't have much insulation and my grandmother got blue lips to so may be some genetic circulatory thing?!

HTH

Jeffa · 30/03/2009 08:48

This happens to one of my friends and she is 32. It's quite normal I think.

gloomysue · 02/04/2009 18:58

My daughter gets blue lips after coming out of the bath, when i mentioned this to the health visitor she told me to take her to the Dr to get her heart listened to. They discovered that she had an irregular irregular heartbeat, and after various tests and ecgs they could find no explanation for this. It then turned out that my mother in law has had an irregular irregular heartbeat all her life too. Maybe you should just get his heart listened to at the Dr.

RidiculousCrush · 02/04/2009 18:59

Ds2 is like this, I don't know why

crkm · 03/04/2009 20:54

My ds got blue lips a lot. He is now 6 and has grown out of it. did worry for a while but the dr was reassuring.

pippylongstockings · 03/04/2009 21:10

I have just had my 2 yo checked out for the very same thing.

After a very full examination ECG etc. It was found he had an innocent heart murmur that requires no treatment. The blue lips the consultant has said it is as a result of peripheral cyanosis.

Basically as you say it happens when he has been playing outside or getting changed from a bath etc. and his body just doesn't cope with the change in temp. as well as others may do. He was very happy that this was nothing to do with his heart murmur and completely normal in young children.

If you are concerened talk to your GP they were great for me and got me a referal within about 2 weeks.

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Wilkiepedia · 04/04/2009 20:53

Thank you - you have put my mind at rest. He has had his heart listened to before at a routine exam anyway

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missingtheaction · 04/04/2009 20:57

'peripheral cyanosis' is posh doctor speak for 'a bit blue round the edges'.

wedgeitt · 29/05/2010 09:39

my son has just had his heart scanned cos he had this and he was found to have a normal heart so there is nothing to worry about, doctor said it is more common to see it in fair skinned children and it is just that the childs core body temperature is a bit low at that moment and it can show in the lips. when body the body warms up more the lips return to normal. We have been told it is nothing to worry about and that it will probably be less noticeable as he is older.

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