Extreme tiredness in 4 year old dd

[mummytopebs]

My dd has been very tired for about the last 2 weeks. I have been having to wake her up on the morning and she has been going to bed about 6 instead of 7.30. She has been very tired at nursery and asking for sleeps all day. Any ideas?

Iron deficiency?

I diagnose a classic case of end-of-term-itis and prescribe copious amounts of sleep as and when needed

She is only at nursery and has 2 days off a week so not due to end of term, what other symptoms may she have for iron deficiency?

General tiredness is a symptom of iron deficiency.

Depending on how pale your DD normally is, you might also see dark circles under her eyes. Or you might not.

She is pale quite a lot of the time. Dont think she is dehydrated she drinks quite a lot

I would get her to the GP to rule out iron deficency.

may just be a growth spurt but best to check.
Hope she feels better soon

Why would her DD be constantly tired during a growth spurt?

I'm curious. Out of all the problems for which I've seen "growth spurt" offered as an answer on MN, I had never before seen it put forward as a reason for tiredness.

cote - my ds's always sleep loads more around the time I think they are having a grow.

(also don't you only grow in your sleep...or is that some rubbish I've picked up from my nan!)

my ds always eats like a horse and gets more tired when he has a growth spurt. I think the extra work the body is doing in growing can make you tired - or at least that is what I assume. DS definitely sleeps more just before I notice his tops/trousers getting small.

Lack of Iron is associated with poor appetite . Minadex is good, try that, if she improves you know its the iron.

I might be wrong, but my understanding is that tiredness (lack of energy, possibly caused by lack of oxygen in blood meaning lack of iron) is not terribly related to growth (bones, etc).

No, you don't only grow in your sleep You fix memories in your sleep, so children would sleep more in periods when they are learning more (learning to speak, learning to walk, etc).

she could be in the period leading up to an illness like chicken pox
check her temperature
has she anything to point towards like tummy upset,cough,sore throat,weeing a lotetc

if it persists with no obvious cause, ie she is not just incubating something, I would consider a food intolerance. DD main symptoms very extreme tiredness and palor, then she literally stopped growing, was found to be very anaemic, and it was coeliac disease.

don't mean to alarm you as my best guess is what morningsun said or pullmyfinger, but that is another possibility