My 3 year old gets "LEG ACHE" - Anyone else's get this?

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every now and again my Lo complains his legs are aching usually after pre-school and around once a month. I have had to give him a dose of calpol last night and tonight.

I suffered from this when I was young but not this young...should I go to the Docs?

MadHouse, I wonder if they put the same addictive agent in Calpol as they do in Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Pringles?

Zazen, I doubt if you follow the manufacturer's instruction re dosage Calpol will be terribly damaging to livers.

zazan - my lo lives off brocolli and bananas so I really dont think its mag lacking in his diet.....Im going with the general and think its growing pains!!! thanks I now know I am NOT alone

Growing pains is a wide and vague concept which can cover all sorts of things. Flat feet is a definite possibility. Sometimes it is caused by hypermobile joints. Sometimes, it may well be some sort of dietary deficiency. Sometimes no cause can be found at all.

I would let a doctor check your dc over before making your mind up.

My DS 3 also wakes up at night crying with pains in his legs. I thought it was cramp, but maybe it is growing pains. What causes growing pains?

Ds is 5 and has had this since he was about 2.

I had the gp check him over and she said he is fine and that it is either cramp or growing pains.

I know that as a child I used to get the exact same thing, from my foot to my knee with the pain being worse in the top of my foot and my knee, which is exactly where Ds's gets most pain too.

I did have a search for info on it once and a study was done on it ihn america, where they said that it was more common in children who's parents suffered with it, and then more common again if the childs mother had suffered with it.

Ds's is worse if he runs around bare foot. He gets it quite often after he has done pe at school, as they go barefoot.

I use ibuprofen gel as he gets so hysterical about it that any calpol etc I give him orally, comes straight back up.
I also hold his legs tight so that they get wram and then he eventually drifts of.