Worried my 5yo Son has Cancer

Hi,

My Son has just had his 6th awful infection in a year. This is abnormal as 3 of those times the whole household were isolating and there was no contact with anyone outside of the household and I'm starting to worry he has an underlying health condition and when I've been Googling everything is pointing to Cancer I'll explain more

Every time he is ill he has a sore head, sore throat, loss of appetite, extreme lethargy and high temperature with a negative covid result, but this last time was really concerning as he had a temperature as high as 39.4 that neither Calpol nor Nurofen would bring down then 2 days later it was 34.5 (thermometer tested and 100% accurate), I took him to A&E and it normalised by the time we were seen so we were just sent home, he also had severe night sweats and 4 nose bleeds 

Besides the regular infections he suffers from:
Itchiness
Night sweats 
Leg pain which was looked into and put down to sensory. He did have an X-RAY in both legs and MRI and CT in 1 leg as they found a tumour, but was told it was benign and unrelated to the leg pain
Nose bleeds about once every 1-2 months which does go on a little throughout the whole day
Feels the cold a bit more than what I would say is average
Only put on 1/2 lb in 2 months
Slightly low energy levels
Complains of bad belly about once a week

Some of these I put down to sensory related issues as he is on the autistic spectrum, but I’m not sure anymore

Doctors aren’t really interested, he had a blood test which showed high on monocytes and bacterial, but they think this was just down to the infection

I’m so fed up of doctors not listening to my worries, this surely can’t be normal. Any help, advice or similar situations would be massively appreciated

Thank you

  • I'm very sorry to read how unwell your son has been Sian_C. It must be very worrying.

    I hope you hear from some of our members who may have been in a similar situation but in the meantime the only thing I can suggest is trying to seek out a second opinion. You can find out more just here.

    I will have my fingers crossed you're able to get to the bottom of this and your son is back to full health soon.

    Kind regards,

    Steph, Cancer Chat Moderator

  • Hi, thank you for your response. I have spoken with a couple of doctors within the surgery and neither were concerned, so I guess that's promising, one of the doctors has recorded the blood test for 3 weeks time, but expects it to have normalised. Maybe he is just unlucky, but it's horrible seeing my child constantly go through these things.

     

    Thank you,

    Sian