my preschooler has intermittent knee pain?
my 3yr old daughter appears to be and is usually very healthy, but she does have random weird medical things happen to her. When she was 1-1&1/2 she was turning blue (still breathing) and getting really cold and her extremities would be a bit stiff. She's has reactive airway/asthma and reflux issues to this day. She also had osteomyelitis when she was 1&1/2 and had to have surgery on her left femur under her growth plate.
Lately she's been complaining about her knee (the last 6months) on and off. it's always when she's doing something active, but not every time she's active if that makes sense. It's always her left leg, and it always seems to get better when she calms down.
She also always surprises the doctors with her random diagnosis because she's happy and playing.... even when she had the bone infection it took 3 weeks to get a diagnosis because the dr. was convinced she would be refusing to walk if there was an infection - not just slightly limping like she was.
So, as you can imagine after realizing she's been compaining consistenly about the same knee for months, i've started to worry some.... any ideas on what my next step should be since she's not in obvious pain and it's not really predictable?
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1. I would take her to the doctor for an evaluation. Tell him that she has a high tolerance for pain, and if he blows it off, go see a specialist--an Orthopedic Specialist.
