Baby knee popping - help!

dryan

Hi Folks,

We have a happy little 8 month old and on friday last, he got a little bit cross as he got hungry. I took him up to feed him and as i had him on my knee, i noticed some strange movements in his left knee. When i examined it more closely, i noticed that as he got a bit agitated, he was popping his knee in and out at his own ease. In the last week we have noticed that he is waking up more and more during the night and tends to cry a bit because of some discomfort.

We took him to casualty the next morning (sat) where he was examined and was xray'd on both hips and both knees and both xrays showed up no defects. The doc on duty told us not to be worrying and basically told us to carry on and forget about it.

The knee is functioning as normal. He can take his own weight on it and it doesnt cause any discomfort.
He uses it all the time when he is in his 'bouncer' and is happy out.

I looked around on google this morning and i found this article that shows exact same symptoms.

http://www.ejbjs.org/cgi/reprint/60/5/679.pdf

If anyone out there has any experience of the same problem, any help advise would be much appreciated.

Nevyn

Don't use google to try and figure out what is wrong with your child.
Take him to the dr asap.