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struggling to reintroduce foods to my sick kid

QueSrahQueSrah member
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T had last vomited Friday morning, and was basically fine Saturday with mainly water, crackers and a little fruit (canned peaches or pears).  She will only try applesauce occasionally.  (I swear - this picky eater just got pickier with being sick.)  She was fine this morning, so we gave her lunch (peanut butter sandwich - horrible choice, in retrospect, and some more fruit with water).  Then she just threw up at bedtime.

So...clearly we need pointers.  If she's keeping crackers and some fruit down for a day or more,  what foods should we go back to next and how long should we wait?  We tried oat milk and rice milk and she refuses both, so she's basically eating just crackers, water and fruit most f the time and doing well with that.  I just don't know where to go from there without overloading her tummy and setting her back.

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Re: struggling to reintroduce foods to my sick kid

  • hollacehollace
    As a general rule, you should omit dairy and citrus after an upset stomach, this goes to kids and adults.  Try the BRAT diet.  Banana, rice, applesauce and toast.  You can add crackers, jello, ginger ale also as they are easy on the stomach.  Let her eat as little as she wants for now. So long as she's taking fluids she'll be fine.  It may take her a couple of days to get back to whats normal eating for her and that's okay.  Just stick with the bland stuff for a couple days.
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  • SofkaSofka

    The recommendation is usually the BRAT diet - bananas, rice, applesauce, toast. and do whatever it takes to keep her hydrated. Have you tried the mash-ups (I posted about them a few days ago), they are the consistency of apple sauce but come with different fruits/veggies.

    Hope your DD is better soon!!

     ETA: try lactaid milk, that's what we had to do when DD had a stomach bug, she loves her milk but the lactose can upset the tummy so the pedi recommended lactaid and DD didn't know the difference. All dairy products are bad for tummy issues, except yogurt, so push that.

     

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  • QueSrahQueSrah member

    She'll barely take fluids since we won't give her milk, so that's still a concern.  

    But my bigger question is how long do you stick to BRAT before moving on to "real" food?  That's where I'm suck.  I would have figured that almost 48 hours after the last episode was long enough, and she was eager to get some real food at the time.

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  • 2vthokies2vthokies

    Try pedialyte or watered down apple juice, pedialyte popsicles (in the tube) or just plain popsicles to try and get fluids in her.  If she tolerates the other BRAT items, maybe plain chicken broth with very soft noodles.  I think if she can handle fruit, crackers and some chicken broth (plus other fluids) that should be good for a while.  After that, I would try really soft scrambled eggs. 

    A couple weeks ago DD2 (15 months) had RSV, an ear infection and was cutting some molars and basically didn't eat for almost four days.  Pedi said that as long as she was drinking enough, then she was fine.  When she finally felt better her appetite came back with a vengence.  Just go really slow with the food.  If she throws up, it's okay, just push the fluids (I know, easier said than done) and go back to the BRAT.

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  • kastlekastle member

    i'm late on this, but I too would think 48 hrs would be enough time for the BRAT (including crackers, soft/bland noodles, etc).  however, like your little girl, sprout regressed several times & we just had to start over.

    you probably don't want to hear this, but it took a week before he really felt like himself 100% (and, uh, 10 days before I stopped being queasy all the time and after my "episodes" ended)

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