I HAVE A 10YR OLD SON..ABOUT 5 YRS AGO HE HAD HIS 1ST EPISODE OF URINATING BLOOD..I DONT MEAN BLOOD IN THE URINE..I MEAN WHEN HE WENT TO URINATE IT WAS NOTHING BUT BLOOD....WE THOUGHT IT CAME FROM PLAYING WITH HIS OLDER COUSIN WHO ACCIDEMTLY PUNCHED HIM IN HIS STOMACH WHEN WE TOOK HIM TO THE ER THEY SAID HIS KIDNEY WAS PRBABLY BRUSED HE URINATED BLOOD FOR 2 DAYS AND EACH TIME IT GOT LESS AND LESS..THEN THE EPISODE REPEATED ITSELF ABOUT 1 YR LATER HIS PEDIATRICIA SENT HIM TO A UROLOGIST WHO SAID IT THE OPENING TO HIS PENIS WAS TO SMALL AND HE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE SURGERY DONE TO OPEN THE WHOLE A LITTLE WIDER....HE HAD THE SURGERY DONE ..HE ALSOHAD A CYSTOSCOPY AND VGUG AND THEY COULD FIND NOTHING ELSE WRONG.....AFTRE THE SURGERY THE UROLOGIST TOLD ME HE SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY MORE PROBLEMS....NEEDLESS TO SAY IT HAPPENED AGAIN ABOUT 1 1/2 YRS LATER ..HIS PEDIATRICIAN SENT HIM TO A NEPHROLOGIST..WHO TESYTED HIM FOR MANY THINGS..HIS FINAL ASSUMPTION IS LUPUS...HE SAID HIS ANA FOR LUPUS HAS CAME BACK POSITIVE 3X AND THE FIRST TIME HE DID THE ANA TITER IT CAME BACK AS 1:80 THEN HE REPEATED IT 3 MTHS LATE IT CAME BACK AT 1:360..THE NEPHROLOGIST THEN REFERRED HIM TO A RHEUMATOLOGIST....SHE HAD SEEN HIM 3 TIMES AND SAID SHE IS NOT CONVINCED THAT HE AHD LUPUS....OVER THE PAST 5 YRS HE HAD 4 EPISODES OF URINATING BLOOD....SOME TIMES IT LAST FOR 1 OR 2 DAYS THEN OTHER TIMES IT MAY LAST FOR ONLY HOURS....THOUGH THERE ARE TIMES WHEN HE URINATES YOU CAN NOT SEE THE BLOOD...WHEN THE DIPSTICK TEST IS PERFORMED IT COMES BACK AS BLOOD IN THE URINE...LAST MONTH THE NEPHROLOGIST DID FU URINE TESTS, WHICH NOT ARE COMING BACK WITH PROTEIN IN THE URINE....AND OVER THE LAST WEEK HE HAD HAD SWELLING IN HIS MOUTH AND ARMS AND WELTS ON HIS HANDS AND WRIST..THE RHEUMATOLIST SAYS THAT IT IS AN ALLERGIC REACTION TO SOMETHING BUT I DONT BELIEVE THAT..I FEEL THERE IS SOMETING ELSE GOING ON WITH MY SON...WHEN I TAKE HIM TO THE ER THEY TREAT HIM FOR ALLERGIC REACTION AND SEND HIM HOME..MY SON HAS HAD NO RECENT CHANGE IN HIS DIET OR EATING HABITS...I PACK HIS LUNCH EVERYDAY FOR SCHOOL AND I COOK THE SANE FOODS AT HOME THAT I HAVE BEEN COOKING SINCE HE WAS BORN....NO NEW FOODS, DETERGENTS OR TOOTHPASTES...LAST WEEK HE WENT FOR FU WITH THE NEPHROLOGIST BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN COMPLAINING OF SEVERE HEADACHES FOR 3DAYS..WHEN I TOOK HIM IN HIS BP WAS 130/100....HE HAS HAD IT CHECKED 2MORE
TIMES SINCE THEN ONCE AT THE ER THE DAY AFTER THIS DATA AND IT WAS 118/76..THE NEXT DAY HE WENT BACK TO THE NEPHROLOGIST OFC FOR A 2DAY FUAND IT WAS 110/80...THE NEPHROLOGISYT KEEPS SAYINHG SHE DOES NOT THINK HE HAD LUPSU BUT STILL AFTER 5 YRS...I DONT KNOW WHY HAS HAS BLOOD IN HIS URINE OR WHY HE HAD ALL OF THESE OTHER SYMPTOMS..THE NEPHROLOGIST SAYS SHE WANTS TO WAIT UNTIL HE HAS ANITHER EPISODE OF HAVING BLOOD IN THE URINE THAT YOU CAN VISABLLY SEE THEN WE WILL GO FROM THERE BUT I DONT WANT TO WAIT UNTIL THAT HAPPENS I WANT TO FIND OUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY SON.....IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME PLEASE