My son is 15 months old, 3 months ago he had a
Fever and I took him to the doctors. She noticed he had "lots and lots" of swollen glands and said it was just a virus and sent us home. He also had what she called a "rash" on his leg. We came back a month later and he still had had swollen glands and the"rash" which she took a closer look at and it was ringworm and is still currently being treated with cream. Anyway she once again told me that it was a virus and his glands would go back to normal. (He also got pink eye, that was gone before the first
CBC was done but after the glands were swollen.)I came back a week later because his glands didn't go down at all and it had been 2 months. She did a
CBC everything was normal except for his wbc which was 19, 000. She put him on augmentin and said it must be a bacterial infection. A week later we did an ultrasound on his glands which some were almost 2 cm, there are quite a few on both sides also did another
CBC w/ diff this time. Once again everything but his WBC was normal it was 15, 000 (I don't know what white blood count was high). She sent us to children's hospital to see a hematologist 2 days later and they did another white blood count and a blood smear. His WBC was 16, 700 and the blood smear showed some type of virus. The hematologist didn't find any swelling of the belly and no swollen glands by the collar bone but he did find them under the armpit. It's almost been a month since the last appointment and 3 months since this all started and his glands are still swollen, they haven't found what virus it was. He was neg for Mono and
CMV. This whole time my son hasn't acted like anything was wrong except when he was getting that
Fever 3 months ago and another small
Fever on and off 2 months ago each only last 2-3 days. He has no symptoms what so ever except for bags under his eyes he has no weight lose, he eats well, no night sweats or
fevers. What else could it be? I'm soo afriad that it is cancer since it runs sooo strong in my family. My cousin died of cancer when he was 21, my sister had
cervical cancer at 16 my uncle had a brain tumor and lots of aunts, uncles and 2nd and 3rd cousins also have some type of cancers. My doc. said she was worried because this high white blood cell that was high is the one that is usually high in cancer, my hematologist said it is also the one that is high in viral infections(once again I do not know what one it is) and he says there is no reason to suspect cancer yet... but what could be making his glands swollen and his wbc so high for this long??? A week before this all started he got his 12 months vaccinations (Hib), Hep B,
measles mumps, and rubella, chicken pox and pneumoccal conjugate.
