My son just turned 19, has an extensive med hx due to prematurity so ill health is not a new experience for him...hx of BPD,
RSV, repeated pneumonias, severe asthma, surgeries, GERDS, tx for ulcers x 3, bowel polyps, meningitis, mononucleosis and last year an unexplained illness w/5 day hospital admission. He had high temps, enlarged spleen, liver, pancreas and a platelet count of 30,000. never a definitive dx. Ironically that was his 4th episode of ITP, last one being at age 18.