Question: My daughter is 4 years old. She has been pale and has had no appetite for 4 days (she has lost 2 1/2lb was around 2st 12lb to start with) and was running a very high temperature - she's normally around 36oC and was around 38.9oC.. She has wanted to drink a lot but has been urinating less frequently than normal, though no pain when urinating. Stools pretty normal! 2 days ago she had severe abdominal pain over the course of 6 hours that seemed to be under her rib cage. She had great difficulty breathing because of the pain and was obviously very distressed. It was not continuous but came and went, each episode lasting around 15 minutes and 4 or 5 episodes in that time. The emergency doctors at A&E did a urine test and said there was a minor UTI, for which they have prescribed 7 days of antibiotics. Her temperature is now down but today she has developed painful swelling in her right groin which I am assuming is a lymph node. She has had no pain since that day. Any suggestions? As she is not quite right, but doesn't seem to be in pain, I don't want to take her to the doctor in case they think I'm wasting their time. All the UTIs that I have had or know of just don't seem to fit the pattern, nor to be as painful as this. She normally just gets on with it, and as she is very happy-go-lucky, runs around a lot and hurts herself fairly frequently, it was very scary to see her inconsolably writhing in pain on the corridor floor at the hospital after we'd been there 4 1/2 hours...

I don't know if it's relevant but I did wonder if she had tonsilitis coming on on Saturday as her breath smelt like it - though I couldn't see any swelling then or now. The lymph nodes on her neck have been swollen since Saturday too.

Thank you, I will make an appointment soon.