Hi.

My husband's niece is 9 years old. She had strep in August. She was of course given a course of antibiotics which she took. After the treatment, they all went on a vacation and the day the plane landed, the little girl exclaimed "my knee, my knee" so they took her to the hospital which could find nothing wrong and she was sent home.

The next day she was in such pain, they took her back and she was admitted. They did a strep culture and it was positive so they immediately thought "Oh, this is a reactive arthritis (which had spred to her hip), and they began giving her morphine for the pain and strong arthritis meds and they took blood work.

Two days later the pain was worse and it has been decided that because of the results of the blood work, she does not have any Reactive arthritis going on in her body.

Took her off of morphine and put her on something else and she did not get better.

Yesterday she can NOT get out of bed, (meaning, she can't stand on her legs) and the day before she WAS able to straighten her legs while lying in the bed (I gather she was not able to do this previously)

So I asked a relative the following:

What do the doctors think she has, if it's not arthritis (and the doctor said NO THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HER HAVING STREP)

I was told the doctor said "

She has a virus

My husband immediately said "OH MY GOD, my mother had Guillian Barre many yeas ago and she could not walk and she was in pain"

I related this info to the relative and said "you never thought of this link?" and she said: "No," and she said she would tell them this and run it by the doctor.

Also, the father of this little girl, well his sister has a bad case of MS and has been wheelchair bound for years.

If anyone can tell by the symptoms I have provided what they think is going on in this child's body, I would appreciate it.

Thanks much

I have no other info to give. Just what I wrote.

Thanks much