My 2 year old son had blood work done a little over a week ago that his allergist ordered. She ordered a round of test because he was sick off and on for 3 weeks in December with his breathing, fever that came on once for 2 days,clear to greenish running nose and wanted to see how his immune system was. We saw her today as a follow-up appt and Everything came back good except his glucose sugar was a little low. She asked if he fast we said no. She wanted to follow-up with his pediatrician. Started on Tuesday my son had his leg hurting, I guess you can say. He started crying and stood still. I try to get him to walk to me and started to.walk but it looked like he was hurting and didn't want to put weight on it. A hour later he was fine and was running around again. Wednesday was normal day. Yesterday afternoon it started around 4. He wanted to be held. He wasn't running around but chill out on the couch.He went to bed at 7. I woke him up later to.check on him and he was crying and walk a little but acted like he was in pain. My husband gave him ibuprofen and in the morning( Friday) he.was fine. He seem ok for most of the day. Allergist appt was at 4 today and he played in the kid area walking slow but wasn't running around as he normally does. I told her but she wasn't concerned but said it might be growing pains. She looked at both and moved them but didn't see anything concerning. None of my kids ever did this at this age except as they got older. I know we found out at our last appt he allergic to bananas because they didn't write it on his " to avoid these foods" list that he's allergic to. I cut bananas out since then so I don't think that could cause it with his potassium? Anybody had problems with their child this young with low sugar or legs bothering them???? *He didn't fell or sprained it in anyway. No cuts,bruises or.marks that would had cause.him to be in pain.
Edit: by the time we left the allergist yesterday(Friday) it was after 5pm and the pediatrician was closed for the day. I'm going to call first thing Monday morning. Thanks for the feedback. I was planning on talking with the pediatrician about the leg issue just wanted to See if any other mama's had any similar problems with their child with leg or low sugar.. thanks again
Edit: he was on antibiotics for 10 days. The day of his his allergist appt on Jan 8th she wanted us to get blood work done. She put him on antibiotics, but we didn't get it filled yet so he didn't take any. He drank water and milk that morning and ate dry fruit loops in the car on the way to the allergist and after. They broke it up in 2 parts(friday and Tuesday) of his weight because they couldn't draw that much blood out of him. The glucose part was on the 8th. He was on medicine but didn't said anything about causing low blood sugar. So I don't know
To make a long story short...my daughter had knee pain and couldn't walk when she was 2 3/4 yo. It did not resolve though throughout the day. Blood work revealed she had Lyme disease.
The low blood sugar level could be completely unrelated to the leg pain.
maybe ask your pediatrician?
this sounds way more serious than a casual 'gee let's see what the non-doctor strangers on the internet think.'
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There are a few different possibilities so it is something to keep an eye on for sure. My son started limping when he was 2.5. It kept up for a few days until he just stopped walking. We had been to the hospital about the limp and they kind of blew it off, they even asked if he could be faking, but when he stopped walking all together they finally investigated. After a lot of testing it was determined he has juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), a autoimmune issue that causes his immune system to attack his joints and skin rather then just the disease making him sick (in this case it was actually strep throat and an ear infection that triggered the joint pain). We manage his condition with anti-inflamitories when he has a flare up and he lives a perfectly normal life.
I have had to watch my sugars my whole life. I get faint and confused if they are too low. Also diabetes runs in my family. Leg pain can come about from years of diabetes and definitely not a first symptom. It's from nerve damage in that case.
Cramping - my kids get this. It could be dietary in nature. Not enough salt, etc.
Just have your doctors work together on this and ask questions. Good luck :)
If your son was taking meds. when he was sick or still is then i think it could be a reaction from the medicine.or he could be dehydrated. get some pedia sure. or power aid not red add a little water to the power aid.give it to him for one week. let me know if that helped. meds cause low blood suger. When i was dehydrated my legs hurt more in the morning when i woke up.
I suggest you talk with pediatrician.
My grandaughter has allergies to many things. I doubt that having pain in the leg is related to his allergies. I had pain in my legs as a child and still do, once in while, have unexplained pains. It is common for children to have unexplained pains. They are nearly always labeled growing pains.
I also doubt that low blood sugar would cause pain in the leg. Have you taken him to the pediatrician about low blood sugar? Doing so is important.
Do you have tall people in your family?
Our son had HORRIBLE growing pains!
He'd wake up in the middle of the night crying from a pain in one leg or the other or his arms.
Sometimes we could ease the pains with - warm bath, heating pad, bananas, drink more milk (for calcium and vitamin D), tylenol, etc - but sometimes nothing but waiting it out would work.
The pains never lasted for more than a few hours - they'd come and go.
He was 4 when he first really had a bad time with this - but he shot up 4 inches that year!
He had similar growth spurts when he was 6 and 8 yrs old - and the pains were bad every time.
Now he's 17 and 6 ft 2 in tall - and he's fine.
It's just the rapid growth was really painful.
So ease his pains best you can - and measure his height often.
As for the low blood sugar - do what the doctor tells you to do.
A rapid growth spurt might be burning up some extra energy at unexpected times.
Kids that are growing can suddenly eat a lot more than when they are between spurts.
Do you have a children's hospital anywhere in your area? If you do, even if you have to drive a couple of hours, I would ask your pediatrician for a referral to have tests other than allergy testing done. Low blood sugar is dangerous and you need someone to figure this out.
If I were you, I'd research what foods have potassium in them that he CAN eat.
I would write a "diary" of these symptoms for the doctor. It could help.
Good luck, and keep us posted...
