Every fall I have several children between the ages of 5 and 8 years old who come in because they are peeing all the time. The parents report the child will feel like he has to go every 10 or 15 minutes all day long and often will only have a little bit of urine each time. The typical child will still be sleeping all night but will start going very frequently as soon as he wakens and not stop until bedtime. It can be very disruptive to the
Posted by: drmolly in diabetes, breathing problems on
Mar 15, 2009
Breathing fast. That was the only thing obviously different. The symptom I couldn''t explain.
T''s mom e-mailed me one Saturday and said the 2-year-old wasn''t eating well but was drinking lots and that he was breathing faster than normal. I asked my usual questions: Fever? No. Cough? No. Vomiting or diarrhea? No. Any obvious pain? No. So I suggested they give it some more time and see if it was evolving into an illness and fever or
