I hope you guys can shed some light on this. My daughter has always gotten med-high fevers (100-103 deg) for even the smallest of things--tiny colds etc. She also has gotten several fevers with no other symptoms. Whenever she has a fever and it is rising, she vomits quite a bit and complains of stomach pain and headache. She is 5 now. It has taken me this long to start to think something is a little wierd and to think there may be a pattern emerging. The fevers started around the time she was two--sometimes with a cold or sinus infection, sometimes with no other visible symptoms. It was fairly frequent back then--i want to say every couple of months for about a year. She had just started daycare that year, so I just dismissed it due to all of the new germs in her life. Plus, she's just got a very sensitive tummy--she gets motion sickness after 10 seconds on the spinning thing at the playground and anything even remotely spicy makes her lose her dinner. After that first year-year and a half, these episodes have been at random. I can't be positive my memory is accurate, but it seems like the majority of her fevers/vomiting have been in the summer/fall months. We're dealing with it right now with a little cold/allergies (not sure) and just had several instances of this in recent months with a stubborn UTI that took 2 months to get rid of. Quite frankly, it's exhausting--it causes both of us to miss school/work for several days each time. More importantly, I'm starting to worry that it's something bigger, like a major allergy or Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome or, God forbid, something worse. Has anyone had experience with similar symptoms in your child? At what point do i freak out? My Mom instincts aren't sounding alarms over this but I just don't know. Thanks, Moms!
First, start charting her days to see if there is a pattern emerging (food/weather/stressful events/vaccinations...) and be sure you bring this up with her Dr. as soon as you can.
It could be that she is more sensitive to her environment than most and there is nothing to be concerned about. But.......the only way you'll know is to talk with a pediatrician, giving them all the information you gave here.
My daughter did that. Everytime she got a fever, for any reason, she vomited. A lot. And she had fevers a lot. She got ear infections just about once a month. She was hospitalized a few times and had IVs in thee doctor's office and urgent care centers many times for dehydration. She would get into cycles that she was dehydrated from vomiting and vomiting from dehydration. Running an IV was the only way we could break the cycle. We never found a way to prevent it, but she did outgrow it. I think the last time it happened was when she was 12 or 13.
Has she been tested for Celiac?
I don't know if this would help but does she take vitimins or herbs? Echinchina helps build the immune system. She can also take cranberry as a supplement to help keep UTI's at bay.
start charting like the other moms are saying but my first thought with the vomiting is could it be caused by drainage?
With a sensitive stomach it doesn't take much to trigger vomiting with drainage.
Summer / Fall are ragweed season. My kids are highly allergic to ragweed. It triggers asthma attacks here.
Kinesthesiology (muscle testing) is an utterly bizarre form of health care that makes not rational sense whatsoever. However, I have gotten useful answers (and simple solutions!) to odd health problems that stumped both mainstream and alternative docs. If you can find a practitioner in your area, they may be able to shed some light on your daughter's problems.
Good luck!
