I'm glad you trusted your instincts and went in for more care. Honestly, the whole "it's a virus" thing is all well and good when the symptoms are manageable, but the level of pain you said she had in her hips was NOT normal, and I wouldn't have been satisfied with "it's a virus" either!
My son had a similar hip issue after a virus (although we KNEW he had had a virus)...he had a bad cold one year and got better. A few days later, his right hip hurt so badly he was limping. He was only 6 at the time, and I thought he had injured himself somehow. We ended up taking him to his pediatrician who ordered an immediate x ray. He had fluid in his hip joint from the virus,not enough to drain though. I had never heard of that before! He was put on NSAIDs and rest for two days and it resolved in about 5 days.
Hope your daughter gets better soon!
So glad she is on the mend.
Right now they are saying ti si acute reactive arthritis that was probably triggered by a virus, but they still are not ruling out undetected bacterial infection. Response to antibiotics means that it could still be acute infection. So they are keeping her until Sunday to monitor to see if pain returns. She seems back to normal now! We get the latest blood work today to see what the white blood count is, but last time it had gone down from 24 to 14. Thank God and thank you guys so much for your support. I know my anxiety over my kid's health is very high and I'm trying to manage that.
When you see your family is healthy, especially your kids, you realize you really do have it all. Nothing, and I mean nothing else matters.
Right now they are saying ti si acute reactive arthritis that was probably triggered by a virus, but they still are not ruling out undetected bacterial infection. Response to antibiotics means that it could still be acute infection. So they are keeping her until Sunday to monitor to see if pain returns. She seems back to normal now! We get the latest blood work today to see what the white blood count is, but last time it had gone down from 24 to 14. Thank God and thank you guys so much for your support. I know my anxiety over my kid's health is very high and I'm trying to manage that.
When you see your family is healthy, especially your kids, you realize you really do have it all. Nothing, and I mean nothing else matters.
I'm glad you trusted your instincts and went in for more care. Honestly, the whole "it's a virus" thing is all well and good when the symptoms are manageable, but the level of pain you said she had in her hips was NOT normal, and I wouldn't have been satisfied with "it's a virus" either!
My son had a similar hip issue after a virus (although we KNEW he had had a virus)...he had a bad cold one year and got better. A few days later, his right hip hurt so badly he was limping. He was only 6 at the time, and I thought he had injured himself somehow. We ended up taking him to his pediatrician who ordered an immediate x ray. He had fluid in his hip joint from the virus,not enough to drain though. I had never heard of that before! He was put on NSAIDs and rest for two days and it resolved in about 5 days.
Hope your daughter gets better soon!
Me, too but I'm still wondering if they have taken in consideration the bacterial/virus situation she had in September. It's kind of scary she's going thru a lot of things again only 6 months later. I'd be concerned with that.
When you see your family is healthy, especially your kids, you realize you really do have it all. Nothing, and I mean nothing else matters.
I'm glad you trusted your instincts and went in for more care. Honestly, the whole "it's a virus" thing is all well and good when the symptoms are manageable, but the level of pain you said she had in her hips was NOT normal, and I wouldn't have been satisfied with "it's a virus" either!
My son had a similar hip issue after a virus (although we KNEW he had had a virus)...he had a bad cold one year and got better. A few days later, his right hip hurt so badly he was limping. He was only 6 at the time, and I thought he had injured himself somehow. We ended up taking him to his pediatrician who ordered an immediate x ray. He had fluid in his hip joint from the virus,not enough to drain though. I had never heard of that before! He was put on NSAIDs and rest for two days and it resolved in about 5 days.
Hope your daughter gets better soon!
glad to read it is now a happy ending!
So what was the final diagnosis? Joint inflammation from the virus? Bacterial infection that the IV antibiotics took care of? Is she still on antibiotics or anti inflammatory meds?
They think it was a virus that could have caused Toxic synovitis (also known as transient synovitis) is a common cause of hip painand limping in children. Doctors don't know its exact cause, but some kids develop it after having a viral infection.
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a potentially undetected bacterial infection but they don't believe so because it would have lingered after two days of iv antibiotics, and it wasn't detected in the culture.
There was fluid in the hips, indicated by the MRI, but not enough to worry about. High inflammation markers, too.
Often they just don't know, but she did have the beginning of sepsis (markers at least) which caused them to send her to a hospital with a PICU just in case she needed it.
I'm so worried she is going to get sick again. But I have to remind myself that her blood work was perfect before she left, so no more infection.