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night sweats


Posted by Deb on August 04, 2000 at 07:51:28:

Hello, I have a 5 year old son who has had night sweats since he was a tiny baby. We will put him to bed a healthy happy little guy, and when we check on our kids an hour or two later, he is drenched in sweat, his hair looks like he just had a bath. When we take his temp, it is usually fairly high, like at 102. He has had unexplained, high (106-108) fevers throughout his life and been to Dr.'s Immunologists and Naturopaths, but they never find anything wrong with him. He did have many antibiotics beginning from the day he was born due to ear infections. He has had the ear tube surgury twice now and had his adenoids removed. He has an extremely high tolerance for pain which scares us. He broke his leg once and showed no signs but a slight limp. The Dr.'s reluctantly did an x-ray, and indeed his leg had broken, but was on its way to healing. He has glasses for extreme far-sightedness and astigmatism. He has allergies to Dairy and Soy so we try to avoid those. Other than that, he is a normal, and very bright little boy. The night sweats are the biggest mystery, and I am disappointed when the Dr.'s have absolutely no explanation at all. Anyone ever heard of this?
Thanks. Deb

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