As you may know, my son was diagnosed with Crohn's last year, at aged 9. He was a chubby baby, and only now in retrospect, are my husband and I realising that he's had Crohns for much longer. When my son was 4 or 5, my husband used to take him and his sister to the park to kick the footy around, and alot of times my little boy would lose his energy quick and be tired easily.
I've been going through the kids special boxes, and I've just come across some blood test results my son had when he was 3. I had totally forgotten about them, and I honestly can't remember why we had them done, it was to do with iron and full blood count, I think we had them done because he was so pale, but he was always a pale child from the beginning.
Anyway, the blood tests from when he was 3 say low in iron, low in transferrin saturation (indicating normal iron stores, but transiently lowered iron because of acute inflammation or infection?.
When I read this, I felt sick. Does this sound like an issue from when he was 3 years old? How did I not know this? And the million dollar question - what caused it? An infection of some sort that just stayed in his system? Was he born with it? It's actually very upsetting.
I've been going through the kids special boxes, and I've just come across some blood test results my son had when he was 3. I had totally forgotten about them, and I honestly can't remember why we had them done, it was to do with iron and full blood count, I think we had them done because he was so pale, but he was always a pale child from the beginning.
Anyway, the blood tests from when he was 3 say low in iron, low in transferrin saturation (indicating normal iron stores, but transiently lowered iron because of acute inflammation or infection?.
When I read this, I felt sick. Does this sound like an issue from when he was 3 years old? How did I not know this? And the million dollar question - what caused it? An infection of some sort that just stayed in his system? Was he born with it? It's actually very upsetting.