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Child Having Extreme Fatigue, Sleepiness. On Multivitamins With Iron, Had Taken Singulair And Zyrtec For Wheezing And Cough. Is It Normal?
Hello, my daughter is 5 years old. She will go to kindergarten next month. Her preschool class stopped napping five weeks ago. She started out being very tired but is now exhausted. One day this week she was sleeping on the floor in school at 5:30 pm. For the past two nights she has fallen asleep by 6:30. Tonight she didn t even want dinner. She is normally pretty high-energy. She takes a multi-vitamin with iron every morning. She was on pulmicort. Singulair, and Zyrtec for a few months for coughing & wheezing but with doctors advice she recently got off all of them within this time period. She was also complaining of headache and sore throat for a couple of days earlier this week. She never had a fever & now says nothing hurts. Is this fatigue to be expected?
Sat, 23 Feb 2013
hi
thanks for writing
a child may fall asleep early if her nap is stopped
but she should not feel tired through out the day
is she falling asleep early or feeling tired through out the day
how many hours of sleep she is getting in the night
you may try a trial of stopping her school for a day or two and let her have a nap in the afternoon
this may help in ruling out this as the cause
if this does not solve the issue may be further examination and investigations may be required
hope this helps
take care
thanks for writing
a child may fall asleep early if her nap is stopped
but she should not feel tired through out the day
is she falling asleep early or feeling tired through out the day
how many hours of sleep she is getting in the night
you may try a trial of stopping her school for a day or two and let her have a nap in the afternoon
this may help in ruling out this as the cause
if this does not solve the issue may be further examination and investigations may be required
hope this helps
take care
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