
What Causes Leg Pain In Children?

Question: my son is 3 years old and has pain in his left leg. its been going on for a year. he only cries at night and it wakes him up out of his sleep. The pain is on his shin. The x ray only noted some density along the tibia and femur they thought may have been lead posining (but we have never lived in an old home or been around old paint). He is 100% fine during the day, never complains. He does get some random fevers every now and then but never over 99.4 or so and it goes away on its on. We then took him for blood work, his ESR is 40 (normal range was 0-20) his CRP was 1.8 )normal between (0-1.0). He also showed low uric acid. Monocytes were at 8.2 (normal ranger 0-4.0), neut % 55 baso # 0.04 . HCT 32.6 MCV 72.8 (the HCT and MCV showed flags for low, while the mono, neut, baso all showed high). He hasn't been sick when I took him in for the blood work. We are stumped to know what is wrong. My doctor was supposed to call me weds with results and I have no heard, I only saw these results on the computer program where they download our info. I am just looking for a few ideas as to what could be wrong. I am worried sick about him and can't get to our doctor until Tuesday. Please offer any ideas you could have.
Brief Answer:
yeah sure
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Welcome to healthcaremagic
Cause of such type of leg pain could be
.GROWING PAIN : commonly seen in children. No test to diagnose it.No treatment.self limiting.Cures by itself
.ANEMIA: you haven't mentioned hemoglobin
.VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY : now a days epidemic.Seen in 75% people.You haven't investigated for it
.POOR NUTRITION
.rarest of all MALIGNANCY: will require bone marrow aspiration
Hope I gave you insight into your child's problem
Happy to help you
Best regards
yeah sure
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Welcome to healthcaremagic
Cause of such type of leg pain could be
.GROWING PAIN : commonly seen in children. No test to diagnose it.No treatment.self limiting.Cures by itself
.ANEMIA: you haven't mentioned hemoglobin
.VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY : now a days epidemic.Seen in 75% people.You haven't investigated for it
.POOR NUTRITION
.rarest of all MALIGNANCY: will require bone marrow aspiration
Hope I gave you insight into your child's problem
Happy to help you
Best regards
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Yogesh D


Brief Answer:
yeah
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for review
CBC is not significant. High CRP + high ESR + daily low grade fever needs further workup.X ray report is also not normal. Rarest possibility of connective tissue disorder(like SLE,JRA etc) and leukemia should be kept in mind.So requires further work up and MRI
Hope I answered your query
Best regards
yeah
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for review
CBC is not significant. High CRP + high ESR + daily low grade fever needs further workup.X ray report is also not normal. Rarest possibility of connective tissue disorder(like SLE,JRA etc) and leukemia should be kept in mind.So requires further work up and MRI
Hope I answered your query
Best regards
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Yogesh D

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