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My almost 8-year-old daughter has been having 'hot flashes' for approximately the past nine months. During these episodes, she gets dizzy, feels faint, appears pale, feels very tired like she can barely keep her eyes open, clammy hands and feet, her stomach begins to hurt, she feels slightly nauseous, gets a headache, has a hot feeling in her head, and feels the blood pulsating in her forehead. It can take up to 1 1/2 hours for her to recover from this. Sometimes it takes only 5-10 minutes to recover. She is normally very active and boisterous, but she becomes very quiet and must lie down during these episodes. She has fainted once while in a shopping mall, but hadn't eaten much during the day and told me she needed to eat or drink right away before she fainted - we were standing in line to get food when it happened.
I have tested her blood sugar during one episode, but it was not low - my husband is diabetic, so we have experience with glucose levels. She had an MRI in April because of the fainting incident, but it was normal. The episodes can occur without, during, or after activity. Sometimes she gets them when she lays down to go to sleep, sometimes while she's playing sports, sometimes while she is just sitting.
We are now scheduled to see a pediatric cardiologist, as I have had symptoms of MVP Syndrome for the past 13 months - I have a bowed valve with no leakage. Seemed like the next step to find out what's going on.
Two years ago she had a lot of gastrointestinal problems - x-ray showed her bowels were backed up - she also had an endoscopy which was totally normal. Her stomachaches have mostly disappeared and we always attributed it to growing pains - she has always been tall for her age. At about the same time as the gastro problems, she began getting itchy hives on her hands, feet, thighs, buttocks and torso. An allergist tested her, but we never were able to determine what they were caused by. He had prescribed Zantac to control the hives, and while she was taking the Zantac is when she first experienced a 'hot flash'. Her allergist changed the medication to Clarinex, but it didn't make any difference. She also has just begun growing pubic hair - two weeks shy of her 8th birthday, which seems a bit young.
Wow, that looks like a lot when it's written down, she's such a great kid and loves to be active, this is really causing us concern. We