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Fatigue and a headache in a 7 yo screams go get a Lymes test with a lymes savvy doctor.
Especially where your live based on your profile.
As a family where all 3 of us have chronic Lyme - I immediately thought the same thing.
To OP, if you ask the doc about it, they may not take you seriously... if they DO - you want the IGeneX test - NOT the Eliza... We were all Eliza negative and IGeneX positive! Very important!
Seems like ever since she started second grade she seems more tired. She gets about 10 hours a sleep a night and has a big breakfast in the morning. The only activity she is in is tae kwon doe which is about 45 minutes and this is only a couple days a week. Sometimes she complains of a headache every now and then. It's not every day, maybe once a week where I look at her and can tell she is wiped out, and I just tell her to go straight to bed.
Is this normal? Love to hear your feedback.
I agree with the other posters (take her to the doc for a full physical/blood work). However, my daughter is eight years old, (almost nine) and in third grade. From time to time, she comes home absolutely exhausted. Why? Well, its a long day for her. She wakes up at 6:30am, gets to school by 7:15am, and comes home by 5/5:30pm. Sometimes she has a very busy schedule in school, runs around at recess, and then does more physical activity in after care. Of course she is going to be wiped out by the time she comes home.
As far as a headache goes, get her eyes checked for glasses. Or maybe, she needs to change her seat in class (too far, too close, etc). Does she need an extra snack in school? Is she drinking water throughout the day? Is she eating enough at lunch? Just remember, these kids are doing a whole lot MORE in school than we ever did. They do things that I didn't have to do until at least a year or two (if not more) later.
I have a 7 year old son in Second Grade and am finding his sleep requirement has gone up slightly from last year. He seems to do best on about 10.5 hours and falls asleep very easily at night. I think that there's a lot going on in second grade, it's a step up mentally, physically and socially from kindergarten and first grade, and the school expectations re academics, behavior, etc are starting to become a bit more firm as well. It's exhausting being 7!
Also check to see that she's drinking enough (seems to be a common gripe from other 2nd grade parents) and eating something during the day. While I like him to have a healthy diet overall, I focus on eating well at breakfast and dinner and then being sure he has some energy by getting him fairly high-calorie items that can be eaten quickly at lunch and recess. Things that take too long to eat get left in the lunchbox in favor of time spent running around, so we go for things like gogurts, cheese sticks, nuts, bananas, but really, as long as he at least has something to eat, I don't care too much what it is.
It's worth getting a physical check to rule out mono, lyme or some other underlying infection, but my hunch is you'd be seeing a more enduring and pronounced fatigue than what you are currently describing.
She is getting a good amount of sleep. I would be sure her diet doesn't have too much sugar/carbs.
And enough water - especially in winter where warm weather doesn't prompt us to drink enough and so many of us are indoors in very dry environments.
I would also (in addition to doing the right thing by asking on this forum) if other neighborhood kids are having the same problem.
I have 6 and 10 (and 12 and 14) year old daughters and my 10 year old is "the tired one" but the others aren't. In our case, it just seems to be the way she is.
For what it's worth, it may not be because of something clinical/medical. What you say about your daughter sounds exactly like how I was when I was in school until about my sophomore year of college.
I just tire out more easily than other people I think (I'm not overweight though, but I'm not an athlete either). My doctor did tons of blood work, I went to tons of specialists... nothing was ever wrong. Every test and evaluation was totally "normal" other than the fact that I'd come home from school and sleep for 3-4 hours before dinner and then still be tired enough to go to bed by 8-9pm.
I know she's young, so she's probably still developing into her own personality, but I've always been a very easily stressed, Type - A, fast moving person. So, I think that played a role in my exhaustion as a kid/teenager because I didn't know how to really manage my stress. Even to this day I get so stressed/anxious I throw up or can't sleep (I don't take meds though). I found that I got more stressed out about school than many of my other peers.
Oh, also, is she getting bullied at all? That could be causing her anxiety/stress... There were times in high school where I didn't get a full nights sleep for weeks because I was so upset over bullying.
Sorry if someone has already asked this, but does she often feel cold when others feel normal/warm?
You might want to get this behavior checked out by your daughter's pediatrician. There could be a host of medical reasons for this behavior. Some mental health issues such as depression and anxiety could also contribute to this behavior.
A 7 yr. old should not be getting exhausted like that, they usually have tons of energy. Get your child into their pediatrician and have them checked out good.
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