my 4 year old son keeps telling me that his stomach hurts and when I touch it he screams. it feels very hard or swollen almost like he is pregnant. This just started lastnight. Now he is telling me that he wants to go to the dr. and get a shot and he hates shots. What could this be?
IIN my opinion, the visit to a pediatrician is a must for diagnosis and management of your children illness. Sudden abdominal pains with severe tenderness can be an episode of bowel obstruction, complicated appendicitis, pancreatitis, peritonitis, comics due to stones etc. All these conditions need immediate doctors interventions. They may ask for some blood and urine examination, X-ray abdomen and ultrasound abdomen to come to a definitive diagnosis. You can give your child dicyclomine and acetaminophen for immediate pain relief before you visit ER. Take career further questions, do contact us.