Growing Pains: Preschooler
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Growing Pains?
Asked by C.S. from San Francisco
on May 21, 2008
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My 4 year old daughter has been waking up several times at night screaming and crying. At first I thought she was having night terrors because it was almost like she w...
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- Hi, my 5 year old has been having the same thing going on. I would have been in the dark but my husband said he had the problem a lot as a kid. He will rub her legs un...
- Hi C.. As a test, you could try giving her Motrin before she goes to bed. Motrin alleviates swelling and pain. It also lasts 8 hours versus Tylenol's 4 hours. I wo...
- sounds like growing pains for sure. they can be really painful for kids.
Growing Pains
Asked by C.C. from Toledo
on April 7, 2008
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I have a beautiful 5 year old girl that wakes up at least 2 xs a week (often more) with extreme pains in her shins.This has been going on for over a year. Some weeks ...
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- I know what you are going thru! My daughter is now 7 and would wake me up crying her legs hurt. I asked my pediatrician and it is growing pains, she is very tall and i...
- I can relate! My son is 5 years old and has suffered from growing pains for years and on a fairly regular basis as your daughter does. I am afraid to say I only just...
- I have a 3(soon to be 4) year old and she too has growing pains. I also massage her legs. But the thing that I find most helpful is a heatiing pad. I wasn't sure if it...
Relief for Growing Pains
Asked by C.S. from Dallas
on February 25, 2009
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Hello Mamas,
I was wondering if anyone had any advice on growing pains. My 4 year old is waking up frequently in the night from leg pains. I had these terribly even ...
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- i got my daughter some small ice packs, they came from the dollar store and they are round & have a gel inside that freezes, they are princess & i'm not sure if they r...
- My daughter often has pains in her legs that seem like growing pains. I give her a little Motrin and then slowly rub Vicks Vapor Rub up and down her legs. It really so...
- My 5 year old son has horrible ones as well. We use a hot pack (rice bag in microwave) and massage 1st and if he's still hurting in 5 mins or so I give him Advil.
Growing Pains, Are They Really Painful?
Asked by M.L. from Cheyenne
on October 10, 2008
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My 3 (almost 4 year old son) woke up crying last night that his legs and knees hurt. He is extremely big for his age, he's 46" tall and weighs about 60lbs. He is ver...
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- We have been through this with all of our boys. They wake up in the middle of the night screaming because their legs hurt. All we have done is rub their leg and comf...
- I see you have a lot of responses, so I'll keep mine brief. I strongly suggest you see a chiroprator. My chiropractor said that growing IS NOT painful; tho that is t...
- If his legs are bothering him and he has "charley horses" the best thing to do is make sure he gets more calcium. His bones are just growing fast. Best to talk to your...
Does This Sound like Growing Pains?
Asked by A.J. from Williamsport
on February 1, 2012
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My 4 year old son sometimes complains about his legs hurting. Lately it's been one in particular. The other night it was really bugging him and he cried all during t...
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- my girl had growing pains at night. she would cry and I would rub them. having her eat lots of bananas seemed to help.
- My son had them for a year or two. Probably 3.5-4.5 yo mostly. He hasn't had them in a while now, which is great. They were growing pains and they were extremely painf...
- Our son has gotten them a few times. He is 13 now, but he got them periodically when he was younger...less so now. When he was about 4 or 5, he had something else th...
2 1/2 Year Old with Growing Pains
Asked by N.W. from Detroit
on September 3, 2006
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My 2 1/2 year old woke up screaming last night. It took us about 20 minutes to realize his legs hurt. We gave him tylenol and massage his legs until he finally feel ...
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- Hi N.. I understand your helplessness...feeling. My son (5yrs)has had horrible leg aches since he was 18 months or so. I have tried various things over the years fo...
- I could be wrong, but this sounds more like a night-terror problem than a growing pains problem (I hate the name, but that is what they are called). When my (now) 4 y...
- I have had 5 children, and two of them had the same thing, I have them pretty bad, I finally went to the doctors, and they told me it was lack of potasium, try getting...
Clingy 4 Year Old
Asked by K.W. from Los Angeles
on April 18, 2009
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i have a 4 year old daughter who is extremely clingy. she follows me around the house, even if she is playing with her toys she will stop to follow me. if i am taking ...
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- Natural. Just support her as much as possible. Get "Your 4 Year Old" and read it, as well. This is a phase that will pass. XO L
- Is this something new for her? Or was she always sorta clingy? Try getting the book "Your 4 year Old", "Your 3 Year Old", "Your 5 Year Old" etc. You can get it from...
- Hi K., I love the name Skye for a little girl. Herer's my advice,OK first of all, never allow a child to demand, that's giving a child power they were nevwer meant to ...
4 Yr Old Experiencing Leg Pain with No Injury *Not Growing Pains*
Asked by C.R. from Boca Raton
on July 22, 2008
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I'm not sure if any of you have experienced this...Our 4 year old complained that his knee hurt last night. I didn't think anything of it because its about that time ...
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- My brother just went through this with his 9 year old son. He had an x-ray, which the tech said was fine, but he was still complaining, limping around, and waking in ...
- Has your child recently been sick, I notice a lot of the children I x-ray tend to have had a virus recently. Sometimes the virus will travel through the joints. Just a...
- Hey C., Maybe he hurt it or bumped it or it could be growing pains, My daughter got them so bad it lasted like 2 or 3 days and i rushed her to the doctor and they did ...
3 Year Old Has Pains in Her Shins.
Asked by J.P. from Philadelphia
on April 28, 2008
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My daughter is fairly tall for her age. She seems to tower over the most the kids in her class at daycare. She has been complaining lately more so than usual about her...
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- Hi!! Take your child to an orthopedic specialist. Growing is not supposed to hurt and the pain in her legs might indicate miss-alighned kneecaps, or shin-splints or...
- I feel that you are correct in your assumption that these are growing pains. They are pains from the growth plates in their legs shifting as they grow and I found tha...
- good am.my daughter had chronic knee pains which i believed to be growing pains dr said it would be more in her shins if it were dgrowing pains so looks like that is w...
Preschooler with Server Leg Pains?
Asked by G.S. from Atlanta
on August 18, 2009
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my 3 years ols seems to suffer from what i think are server legs cramps or possible growing pains at nights is there something tha i can do or give him to keep from ge...
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- My son went through this and occasionally does now, but not if he takes his calcium. There is a liquid calcium that you can take for kids. I use Kid-E-Calc for younger...
- Make sure they have been checked for sickle cell anemia. It runs in my family and leg pains are one of the symptoms.
- My daughter suffers from severe leg pain. otherwise known as growing pains. First our Pediatrician had us keep a journal of each time it happened and on which leg. Dis...
