Son is sick

[mclark51507]

Hi,
my son is 2 and he has been sick pretty much since he was born. We just went to infectious disease doctor today and did not get many answers. I have to wait a week for blood test results. She said we would start at auto immune diseases and limit things out. My son has had a high sed rate of 73 up to 80 just about every time his blood has been taken this year. He is sick about once a week with vomiting and fever. Hes anemic and his WBC is usually high but does come down after he seems to be getting better but the sed rate is always high. He has been hospitalized twice this year and noone ever gives us answers besides says its adnoid virus. He has had strep recurring and this adnoid virus for the last 3 months. He finally got over the strep. My question is with this sed rate being so high is it possible that they might test for cancer? Whats sed rates do young children usually have with cancer? I am very concerned because he does not sleep good at night and wakes up screaming in paun about every couple of hours. He will scream for a little bit and then Ill calm him down he will go back to sleep. Then, do it again several hours later. I do have lupus run in my family so they are doing ANA test to see about that but I just want to make sure Im not missing anything.

[mclark51507]

Can they do a simple test for leukemia? We went to the rheumatologist and he wanted to know if they had ruled out cancer. They never mentioned it to us but once and all they did was say they didnt think he had it. Would he be sick all the time? What should I look for? He tested positive for some of thr rheumatoid antibodys but he also has immune defficiancys.

[Mother of bailey]

My 2 oldes sons always have swollen lymph nodes when thay are sick..MY
youngest dose not, but he did get dignosed with leukemia inon March 28,2006 he was 4yrs old..he had alot of bruseing and pitckia..witch is little red dots all over his body..i ask my dr to do a leukemia test.on him and the next day we got his blood drown and 3 hys lader we were at riley chrilderns hospital....he is 8 now and has been of of cemo sene june 1 2009.....i guess im saying u have to be forsefull with dr sometimes and tell them what u want...make them test him...good luck...

[mclark51507]

I forgpt to mention that he always has swollen lymph nodes in his neck and private area. His neck gets so swollen when hes sick that it bulges out.