Really worried about DD - can anyone medical give me explanation/some advice please?

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Very very anxious right now and would really appreciate some advice. DD (19) has recently had some recurring episodes of feeling weak, feverish and nauseous. Back in Jan she felt breathless playing lacrosse at uni, and said she thought she was unfit, which didn't sound much like her. In Feb she came home for the weekend having been feverish and sick at uni, at easter she had another bout with vomiting, and so when she did it again last weekend with vomiting (couldn't keep anything down) I took her to our GP for blood tests. She said she felt better, but later that day we ended up in A&E for severe dehydration, and given two litres of fluid, and 14 days Amoxiclav. Chest Xray was taken but doc didn't say anything but that he 'thought' it might be a LRTI. Her ESR and CRP are both very elevated, can't remember the rest of the tests. Returned to GP on Friday to collect the final 7 days antibiotics to find out that he didn't even know she had been in A&E, and didn't have hospital test results or xRay. He listened to her chest and said it was clear and there was no noise.
DD has gone back to uni today but is supposed to be organising repeat tests 14 days after the originals, but as that would be BH Monday, she is going to try and get them done this Friday - she has exams starting the week after.
DH and I are supposed to be on holiday abroad that week, but I want to be around in case the results show infection is still there - AIBU?
She has not been coughing, not lost weight, no obvious lumps, no sore throat, no nothing. I am scared sick shouldn't bloody google that she might have lymphoma. The only other thing is that she has been living in student accommodation with, it turns out, an extremely mouldy bathroom that she has been having steamy showers. DH and I are wondering - if her CRP was climbing last Monday (we think it was 186) but she is better now than she was then, given that it can double and redouble etc, does that suggest that this is a bacterial infection? She is pale, still, and a little breathless, and has been quite tired since she started the antibiotics. Could this be something unremarkable? Should we cancel the holiday? Would be very grateful for thoughts please!

I could have written a very similar post to this a year ago. My dd had had numerous episodes of nausea, vomiting, coughs, colds over several months. It culminated in me having to collect her from uni as she literally could not stop vomiting. What followed was a very scary month where she vomited daily, lost a lot of weight and had no energy, just lying in bed for most of the day. Blood tests showed a low white cell count but no one was really able to say anything conclusive... She has some underlying medical conditions for which she is on meds which complicated things further. Like you, all sorts of scary things went through my mind. Eventually, without any conclusive evidence about what was happening, she began to stop being sick daily, started to get her energy back and since then has been fine. We won't ever know what it was.... No doubt the full on student life style doesn't help- I think young people can get run down very quickly living away from home, not getting enough sleep and sometimes living in less than ideal environments as you describe.
I hope things pick up for your dd soon. It sounds very positive that she's well enough to return to uni. I just wanted to share my experience because I know exactly how worried and scared you feel.

Thank you, Lines. I do agree about the lifestyle aspect, although DD drinks little and plays sport, studies hard so is fairly atypical although I think uni life is always 'full on'. But she has these tests that say inflammation and what I can't work out is how you can have inflammation severe enough to make you that sick without any obvious external symptoms... but I hope that like your DD it goes away!

If she complains of stomach pains get her checked immediately for appendicitis. DD was 'off colour' with headaches and nausea for approx 8 weeks (seen GP, had bloods, had antibiotics for non-specific infection as elevated crp etc) before she suddenly developed pain in her abdomen. She had appendicitis - the surgeon said she was a mess inside and must have been ill for a while with this.....
Has she been tested for glandular fever as that seems to be common in students?
I remember having constant tonsillitis in my first year as a student (very mouldy house and enjoying student life to the full) and having my tonsils removed.

Sorry, meant to say I hope she feels better soon and hopefully just a bad virus.

hellsbells yes, glandular fever test negative. Very interesting about appendicitis - she is a horrible colour and my DM always used to say there was an appendix 'colour, bless her. Wouldn't make her breathless at times though, I don't think. Tonsils and throat ok.

My dd has had a serious chest infection for the past month. Needed a strong course of antibiotics. She too has been using a mouldy bathroom in her University town accommodation . I too have wondered if this was the cause of the infection.
Dd fine now . She is insisting her landlady deals with mould problem asap.
Do hope your dd is improving.

Presumably the hospital were told about her use of a mouldy bathroom.

My guess is that this bathroom she has been using is the root cause of her problems. Mould can cause all sorts of bacterial infections to arise if it is left unchecked and the wet and humid atmosphere in a bathroom is the idea breeding ground for bacteria.

A proper check should now be made of this bathroom. I would also look for alternative accommodation and inform the university accordingly of this series of events.

DH (who is a solicitor) has unleashed his wrath already as landlady had it inspected in December and was advised to fit a proper vent but she hasn't done so. Unsurprisingly she's now booked the work for 6 May. Even if that isn't the problem DH felt he had to act for all the girls - we had no idea, the pics are appalling.

Bump?

Mould cannot "unleash" bacterial
Infections!!!

As you were.

(Hope she feels better soon)

Any infection can cause breathlessness, your body requires more oxygen when using energy to fight infection so you breath more have you checked re pregnancy I'm sure you can have elevated crp and esr in pregnancy and it's worth being checked just I case.
Anaemia, VIt D deficiency and stress can make you prone to infection.

In regards to the breathlessness has she had an ecg done to check for any cardiac cause. It's highly unlikely however a quick test that should have been done when she presented to a&E

I think that the mould could be the problem - it's not a bacterial problem, it's a fungal one. Antibiotics don't work for fungal infections. I know someone who missed a whole year of uni due to illness caused by mould in uni accommodation. My own DD who has a lung disease anyway, was extremely ill from a fungus, aspergillus. With anti-fungal meds she recovered. I would suggest a sputum sample is analysed to see if anything nasty lurking. I wish your DD good health.

Checked for pregnancy, anaemia, etc etc. Lungs are clear according to doc but she thought she might be athsmatic back in Jan and she had a cold at Christmas that left one lung feeling 'crackly' at the bottom, she said at the time.