Patient's question:
My little girl suddenly said her calf hurts these days. I looked at her leg, but there were no external injuries, and she could still move normally. My friend said the child might have growing pains. Hello, could you please tell me the difference between growing pains in children and leukemia pain?Doctor's answer:
According to the situation you described, growing pains are physiological pain, while leukemia pain is pathological pain. The difference between growing pains and leukemia is that growing pains are muscle pain, the pain is intermittent, and it belongs to physiological pain. In the early stage of leukemia, it is bone and joint pain and bone inflammation, which is pathological bone pain. The pain duration is long, and the pain intensity is high.