Health anxiety over 3.5 year old

[wingo22]

Hi everyone,

I’m back…I’ve had my anxiety in control for a few years….but we are back.

I have a 3.5 year old daughter who off and on for about a month and a half has been getting petecheia type spots onher right arm mostly.
when she gets then there are about 4-8 spots each time which fade over the next couple days.
My wife is not worried in the slightest but obviously I am. We went to 2 doctors, 1 ordered a CBC and clotting blood tests which all came back normal. She is happy, playful and her normal self so doctors are not really concerned. I am still concerned. I know these spots can be linked back to Leukemia and it terrifies me. I find myself looking at her arms each day when we play or brush her teeth, looking for new spots or to see if the spots have gone away.
Another part of me thinks the way she sleeps could be putting pressure on her arm which can be causing them??? I don’t know. Has anyone ever has these spots with normal blood work? Just looking for opinions.
I thought the normal blood work would convince me she is fine but obviously having some doubts now.
Thanks for any help!

 

[suzzeeb]

I think if the CBC and other tests came back normal there is nothing to worry about. Something like leukemia would show up on the blood work. Most likely it will be something that disappears in a short time. Of course if something got worse you would take her back for a recheck, but at this point there is no reason to worry after evaluation by 2 doctors. Sometimes we get weird things that come and go.

 

[MATD]

I suggest you watch her activity and the things she comes into contact with. It could very well be some type of reoccurring “injury”

 

[E.B]

I would certainly be content with the doctors tests. That would show if anything sinister was there.

 

[wingo22]

Thanks friends. It has been good for the past couple of weeks but 6 or 7 just re appeared again today. It’s weird because it’s almost always on the inside of her right arm. Trying to convince myself that if it was Leukemia there would probably be lots more all over her body and she would have other symptoms. Anyone have any other experience?

 

[wingo22]

Anyone?

 

[Gooze17]

Anyone?

There isn’t a lot of other advice we can give when you’re asking specific wuestions about dermatology. We arent doctors. Leukemia would normally show abnormalities in bloodwork. I know it’s hard not to go straight to the worst case scenario, but rashes in kids are insanely common

 

[bigjetplane23]

Do you still pick up your toddler?
Could it be that you’re causing them (Not on purpose) when you pick her up?
Toddler skin is so fragile and delicate.

 

[wingo22]

Do you still pick up your toddler?
Could it be that you’re causing them (Not on purpose) when you pick her up?
Toddler skin is so fragile and delicate.

we pick her up but not by her arms. It’s just so weird that it’s just that specific arm and that area most of the time. She is in daycare so possibly something there but it’sjust a mystery