Mono or back to back viruses?

[Anonymous]

8 year old daughter fell asleep on the way home from school 2 Mondays ago. Tuesday woke up with a low fever - maybe 101. Complained of headache and stomache and stayed home with those symptoms -- and fever -- all week. Covid, flu and strep all negative. Saturday she was better, but late in the day she said her head hurt again and temp was 100.2.

She was back at school all the next week with a bit less appetite and more tired, but not horribly so. Yesterday, Friday, she woke up saying throat hurts. I assumed just dry air. Came home from school saying it hurts more. Looked in throat and saw white spots on tonsils so took her to dr. No fever, and strep negative. Dr thinks virus but I also asked about Mono. She said normally kids are much more tired than she was presenting but wouldn't be out of the question to test her in a week or so if no improvement.

Came home from dr and remembered the night prior our 3 year old also then said throat hurts so I looked in her mouth and sure enough, white spots on back of throat. Dr. said white spots can be from any virus -- strep, mono and anything that goes in the throat.

8 year old isn't abnormally tired and is eating. No other symptoms but throat still hurts. If you guys were me, would you push for mono blood test just to 100% know? I was more worried that's how it was leaning but since my 3 year old also has white spots, I'm more inclined to think this is just a secondary virus.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8 year old daughter fell asleep on the way home from school 2 Mondays ago. Tuesday woke up with a low fever - maybe 101. Complained of headache and stomache and stayed home with those symptoms -- and fever -- all week. Covid, flu and strep all negative. Saturday she was better, but late in the day she said her head hurt again and temp was 100.2.

She was back at school all the next week with a bit less appetite and more tired, but not horribly so. Yesterday, Friday, she woke up saying throat hurts. I assumed just dry air. Came home from school saying it hurts more. Looked in throat and saw white spots on tonsils so took her to dr. No fever, and strep negative. Dr thinks virus but I also asked about Mono. She said normally kids are much more tired than she was presenting but wouldn't be out of the question to test her in a week or so if no improvement.

Came home from dr and remembered the night prior our 3 year old also then said throat hurts so I looked in her mouth and sure enough, white spots on back of throat. Dr. said white spots can be from any virus -- strep, mono and anything that goes in the throat.

8 year old isn't abnormally tired and is eating. No other symptoms but throat still hurts. If you guys were me, would you push for mono blood test just to 100% know? I was more worried that's how it was leaning but since my 3 year old also has white spots, I'm more inclined to think this is just a secondary virus.

Thoughts?

that could be nearly any virus--- both my kids have high fevers and the 3 year old complains of sore throat (12 month old can't talk)- negative for covid/flu/rsv/strep- drs just say could be lots of viruses-- sure ebv could be one of them but any will cause fatigue