16-01-2004, 10:28 AM
My 5 year old daughter started school in September. A couple of months after she started, the teacher confronted me and told me that she is tired and weepy in class - very listless.
We made every effort to get her homework done early and get her into bed earlier...... she is in bed between 7pm and 8pm every night - on most nights she is getting a good 12 hours sleep!
She has been a little clingy and weepy in the mornings of late and she wakes up with puffy eyes and a really pale face and makes excuses about not going to school for the day. Well this morning, after running quite happliy like a madman all the way to school with her friend..... the teacher asked me again if I have done anything about her tiredness, because there has been no improvement. Some days I give her 5mls of Calpol hoping that it will get her through the day because she looks so dreadful.
I don't have much faith in the doctors here. I took her a couple of times to 2 different doctors at the surgery regarding a sore stomach that she constantly complained about. All tests on urine etc have come out negative. The second doctor said that kids experience migraines in their stomachs instead of their heads like adults and put it down to that (.......?). Not once have they done a blood test to look into things further......
At the moment I have her on multi-vitimins and recently added a spoonful of Cod Liver Oil - should I take her back to the doctor or continue with the vitimin route?
Any advice would be appreciated...... thank you!
We made every effort to get her homework done early and get her into bed earlier...... she is in bed between 7pm and 8pm every night - on most nights she is getting a good 12 hours sleep!
She has been a little clingy and weepy in the mornings of late and she wakes up with puffy eyes and a really pale face and makes excuses about not going to school for the day. Well this morning, after running quite happliy like a madman all the way to school with her friend..... the teacher asked me again if I have done anything about her tiredness, because there has been no improvement. Some days I give her 5mls of Calpol hoping that it will get her through the day because she looks so dreadful.
I don't have much faith in the doctors here. I took her a couple of times to 2 different doctors at the surgery regarding a sore stomach that she constantly complained about. All tests on urine etc have come out negative. The second doctor said that kids experience migraines in their stomachs instead of their heads like adults and put it down to that (.......?). Not once have they done a blood test to look into things further......
At the moment I have her on multi-vitimins and recently added a spoonful of Cod Liver Oil - should I take her back to the doctor or continue with the vitimin route?
Any advice would be appreciated...... thank you!