6mo, travelling overseas, started solids: runny poos = ok? or sick?

[tenar]

DD is 6 and a half months now. We've travelling overseas (Spain), and we started solids about 3 or 4 weeks ago. She's had a variety of things to eat (doing baby-led-solids): vegies, fruit, bread, a piece of ham to suck, etc. Some of the food has been cooked, some uncooked. Some of it is actually starting to do down, I think, as she learns how to handle her food.

She's breastfed.

She's had really runny poos now for a couple of weeks. We're having nappy-leakage all over the place. She's pooing big a couple of times a day, and small a few times a day (kinda like a wet fart more than anything else). At first I thought it was her adapting to solids, but it's going on and on.

Is this normal?

I'm getting a bit worried that maybe she has some kind of gastro bug. It would be mild, because she doesn't have a temperature. Where we are, it is cool but very dry climate, so I'm worrying about her becoming dehydrated. Her fontanelle hasn't been sunken or anything (or not more than usual), but I'm not sure how else I'd know.

She is more or less cheerful, but fussier than usual. I put it down to a "wonder week". Maybe it's something else?

Am I being paranoid or should I start to worrry? It would be a hassle to get her to a doctor here. I'm disinclined to do so unless she seems otherwise sick. But these really sloppy poos have gone on for longer than I'd have expected.

How long would you let a bf bub go with really runny poos for before you worried?

[CAH]

Well not sure if its just coincidence but my little girl has just had 8 days of runny poo. She is 6 months old & started solids a few weeks back. I waited til 5 days then went to the doc, had done all the checks to make sure she wasn't dehydrated & basically thats all the doc did, he repeated everything I'd done already, checked her temp etc & concluded that it wasn't something she'd eaten as it would have passed after 2-3 days, basically its a bug. He told me to come back in another 3-4 days if its still happening. Thankfully we are back to normal now. Should say that for 1st few days she was filling a nappy 6-7 times a day (aarrrrh glad that passed!) after that it was just a couple times a day. I think you can't do anymore then you are now, keep fluids up. Oh I did get a great tip for nappy rash, bath with 2tbls of baking powder, it really worked! Could also be teething though, think that can send things a bit watery down stairs!

[tenar]

Thanks for your reply.

DDs poos have seemed a little more solid today, though still very frequent for her. I'm still not sure if she's well or not. She seems congested in her breathing some of the time, at other times not. Hmm, I think I'll post about that some separately asking for advice.

All in all, I won't be surprised if we end up having to find a doctor here for her, rather than wait until we are back home in Australia <sigh>.