Leg pain in children can be seen in physiological conditions, but also may be caused by osteomyelitis, trauma, and should be promptly sought medical treatment to clarify the cause of treatment.
1. Physiological conditions: growing pains and excessive activity can cause leg pain in children.
(1) Growing pains: children’s growth and development is more active, when the bone growth is more active and the muscle growth is not coordinated, growing pains will occur, leg pains mostly occur at night, you should pay attention to the child’s supplementation of nutrients, usually without special treatment.
(2) Excessive activities: the child in the occurrence of leg pain before there has been excessive activities or do squatting and jumping and so on experience, should be considered to be caused by exercise, can be leg massage, generally no special treatment.
2. Osteomyelitis: mostly due to staphylococcus aureus and other infections caused by bone destruction, the patient will have a generalized high fever, leg pain, local skin redness and fever, as well as impaired mobility, you can use antibacterial drugs under the guidance of the doctor for treatment, and if necessary, to open the drainage.
3. Trauma: children have a history of trauma before the occurrence of leg pain, should be considered to be soft tissue injury or fracture caused by leg pain, should confirm the cause of treatment.
Children with obvious symptoms of leg pain need to actively seek medical attention to identify the cause of the disease and then targeted treatment.