I had originally posted in the Diagnosis area and thanks to everyone that replied. I'm still waiting to find out what could be wrong. My 5 1/2 yo son is in about the 3rd percentile for his weight and has steadily been thinning out over the past couple of years. He was diagnosed with asthma a few years ago and always has an on and off again cough. He's had multiple upper respiratory infections and pneumonia twice. He was prescribed a 14 day course of amoxicillin last month because his doctor said she could hear fluid in his lungs. It helped, at first, now he's started coughing again but not too bad. He coughs a lot in the morning when he first gets up and coughs every now and then throughout the day.
He complains about his stomach hurting a lot and his stool floats in the toilet, but I don't see what looks like oil in the water. Every now and then he won't be able to go for a few days and when he does it's hard (and sinks) for the next few times, then back to mushy and floating. When he was on amoxicillin he had green diarrhea that sank. The doctor requested a stool sample to check for fecal fat and the sample was taken when he was on the antibiotic, which was not an average stool for him. She never called me back so I'm assuming it was normal. Can the antibiotic affect the test results? About 1 week after he finished the amoxicillin he said his stomach hurt really bad and threw up 3 times in about an hour and 15 minutes. He never threw up food, only water and mucus. I called the doctor's office and the nurse said it was probably the flu and that it's normal to throw up only water and mucus once all food has already been vomited. But he never vomited food. She said not to feed him and only give him water for the rest of the day since it was the flu. He was hungry, so I fed him, no vomiting, he was fine. Not sure what that was about. He's thrown up in the past from coughing really hard, but he wasn't coughing.
All these are probably unrelated, but I've been tracking everything. He's pale, has circles under and around his eyes (but so do I), hypersensitive skin, not sure if that's what it's really called, but that's what a doctor told me when he was little. We can lightly run our nail across his skin and you can watch it turn into a red line (my daughter used to "write" on him). He has night sweats a lot, waking up drenched. Sometimes I think his sweat has an odd odor, but I can't quite place it. He seems to almost always have little bruises on his legs and sometimes on his arms. He also complains that his legs hurt, but no cramps. He had hernia repair surgery twice (once on each side). I also have asthma, constant sinus infections and nasal polyps.
He's a very active kid, but not into sports, just likes running and bouncing and doing his own thing. He's incredibly sweet and loving and talks to everybody. It takes us forever to get out of the store because he is so social.
We are heading back to the doctor now because she told us to come in if he starts coughing again before his follow up in July. I really like his doctor but I know if I push too hard to do a sweat test or blood test she'll think I'm being on overly paranoid parent. I'm going to try to sway the conversation in that direction, but I'm thinking she's going to say that since the fecal fat test came back okay (as far as I know) that there's no need for further testing.
Any advice would be great. If anyone wants to share their stories and symptoms that would be great too. There is so much info out there, but I prefer to talk to people with similar symptoms instead of reading "text book" websites. Thanks everyone.
He complains about his stomach hurting a lot and his stool floats in the toilet, but I don't see what looks like oil in the water. Every now and then he won't be able to go for a few days and when he does it's hard (and sinks) for the next few times, then back to mushy and floating. When he was on amoxicillin he had green diarrhea that sank. The doctor requested a stool sample to check for fecal fat and the sample was taken when he was on the antibiotic, which was not an average stool for him. She never called me back so I'm assuming it was normal. Can the antibiotic affect the test results? About 1 week after he finished the amoxicillin he said his stomach hurt really bad and threw up 3 times in about an hour and 15 minutes. He never threw up food, only water and mucus. I called the doctor's office and the nurse said it was probably the flu and that it's normal to throw up only water and mucus once all food has already been vomited. But he never vomited food. She said not to feed him and only give him water for the rest of the day since it was the flu. He was hungry, so I fed him, no vomiting, he was fine. Not sure what that was about. He's thrown up in the past from coughing really hard, but he wasn't coughing.
All these are probably unrelated, but I've been tracking everything. He's pale, has circles under and around his eyes (but so do I), hypersensitive skin, not sure if that's what it's really called, but that's what a doctor told me when he was little. We can lightly run our nail across his skin and you can watch it turn into a red line (my daughter used to "write" on him). He has night sweats a lot, waking up drenched. Sometimes I think his sweat has an odd odor, but I can't quite place it. He seems to almost always have little bruises on his legs and sometimes on his arms. He also complains that his legs hurt, but no cramps. He had hernia repair surgery twice (once on each side). I also have asthma, constant sinus infections and nasal polyps.
He's a very active kid, but not into sports, just likes running and bouncing and doing his own thing. He's incredibly sweet and loving and talks to everybody. It takes us forever to get out of the store because he is so social.
We are heading back to the doctor now because she told us to come in if he starts coughing again before his follow up in July. I really like his doctor but I know if I push too hard to do a sweat test or blood test she'll think I'm being on overly paranoid parent. I'm going to try to sway the conversation in that direction, but I'm thinking she's going to say that since the fecal fat test came back okay (as far as I know) that there's no need for further testing.
Any advice would be great. If anyone wants to share their stories and symptoms that would be great too. There is so much info out there, but I prefer to talk to people with similar symptoms instead of reading "text book" websites. Thanks everyone.
