how long can strep cause stomach aches?

[stacestar]

a long one!
how does strep in the gut work? My son (w/lyme and bart.) has been having stomach aches, about every day, since mid April. Now, of course lyme and bart. can cause stomach pain (esp. bart, I know), and stomach aches were one of his main symptoms (well, he had so many) when first diagnosed last year, but they had really decreased with treatment, so, so much in the past year. To the point where he might mention a stomach ache maybe 2-4 days a month is all (for several months). Now, it's every day. He doesn't even want to eat or play sometimes (that's not often, but happening.)
One reasonable explanation could be we've been increasing, very slowly, his bartonella herbs since end of April. So, that's probably it, maybe? probably?
But, I chart his symptoms religiously and I noticed the stomach aches, almost daily ones, started 4-5 days after we got an email from the school nurse giving pre K parents a head's up that strep was going through the class, with non-typical symptoms. Not sore throats, but stomach aches, and low fevers. And these particular stomach aches of his were right BEFORE a bart. herbs start/increase, starting with 4-5 days in a row, and hardly letting up since. Hmm…
Again we started the bartonella herbs within one week of those first daily stomach aches of his in April. I've been thinking all along it's bart., herxing; bart. causing stomach pains,…and it probably is bart,
but the timing bothers me.
I'm going to ask the llmd to test him for strep.
my question (finally, if you've made it this far): Can strep induced stomach aches last 7+ weeks? maybe a combination of bacteria? maybe I'm grasping at straws, and it's obviously bart. who knows. I was going to stop the bart. herbs to see if the stomach aches subsided, but with a possible new tick bite last week, he's on abx now for a time, and I don't want to stop the bart. herbs just in case.
Thanks if you have any advice or thoughts. I know no one can say for sure, but I was wondering how long strep can cause stomach pain, and how long are the treatments when that is a culprit? oh, and my son's strep tests all came back very low and normal last year when he was being dx with lyme, and llmd wanted to look at the big picture. So he hasn't had issues with it before.

Edited June 9, 2015 by stacestar

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My dd would get nauseus when she got strep, but the abx would clear it up right away. I did want to mention, with all those stomach aches, that I would have him tested for h.pylori. Helicobacter pylori is an infection in the stomach, and can cause malabsorption of nutrients from our food, thus causing all kinds of issues, both mental and physical.

 

There doesn't seem to be any agreement on what test is the best - I think there are 3 ways to test for it, one being a breath test.