thread: 4yr Old Health Issues - Ideas Please

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  1. #1

    Jul 2009
    Out North, Vic
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    Re: 4yr Old Health Issues - Ideas Please

    It's like banging your head against a brick wall!

    I've demanded a blood test, he said her tonsils are huge (not infected but huge)

    Everything else he has put down to a cold / flu... Seriously every 2/3 weeks she's like this, she's not herself.
    I feel horrible putting her through a blood test but headaches etc worry me. He thinks it's nothing!

  2. #2
    2013 BellyBelly RAK Recipient.

    Apr 2009
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    Re: 4yr Old Health Issues - Ideas Please

    I would ask for a referral to an ENT specialist and some routine blood tests such as iron like you mentioned, Hb, platelets, thyroid, liver functions. Basically the standard ones. My daughter had similar symptoms. It turned out she had low platelets which was due to recurrent infection. This would vary from tonsilitis to school sores etc. Her immunity was very low. All her problems the ENT believe is from her tonsils. They are grade 4 even when not infected. They are coming out shortly (couldn't have them out when her platelets were so low).