Loose Bowels for 2.5 weeks

tessajd · March 2013

I hope you guys can give some advice. Two and a half weeks ago my 15-month-old got her MMR vaccine. Around the same time, a stomach bug was going around daycare. One or the other caused her to start to have loose bowels, which have continued ever since. Her normal poop is rather hard, now it ranges from mushy to occasional liquid. The frequency has pretty much stayed the same.

Last weekend we did the BRAT diet with milk and had no luck. This weekend we did it again but without milk, substituting Pedialyte. It helped minorly. My doctor's office said that it should work by Monday, but it doesn't look like it has worked. Her mood is fine, but she hasn't been eating nutritiously for the past 2.5 weeks at all, because if we give her fruits and vegetables her diarreah gets even worse - to pure liquid. I'm at my wits' end. Has anyone been through this? Any advice?

WhitWed · March 2013

Ugh - sorry your DD is going through this! We went through a similar thing a little over a month ago. Our DD was having loose stools about 5-6 times per day (very out of the norm for her). We were really worried because she had no other sympto

tessajd · March 2013

WhitWed, how long did you cut out milk for, and what other foods did you give her until she got back to normal? My pedi says a stomach virus is going around as well, but the other kids at daycare seem to have gotten rid of it much quicker. Tha

WhitWed · March 2013

tessajd:
WhitWed, how long did you cut out milk for, and what other foods did you give her until she got back to normal?

Temp123197812503460 · March 2013

I would also try yoghurt with active cultures or those bio gia drops of something similar. Maybe her good gut bacteria took a hit with the illness

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