breastfeeding baby when I have diahorrea: is imodium safe and is she sick?

[Gigi]

i had two bouts of really bad gastro whilst bf-ing. both times, i mean, like "most of the night on the toilet - lost 3kg overnight" type gastro.

i kept bf-ing my baby and SHE DIDN"T GET SICK! the breastmilk screens out the mother's sickness. INCREDIBLE!!

the 2nd time, i was so ill my milk dried up for a day, which was scary (i was unprepared for that).

so my advice would be, if you can, to express and store some BM, JIC your milk dries up for a short time.

or stock up up some organic formula like Holle. JIC you need it.

i was totally unprepared, and had to buy a huge tin of unsuitable formula at the local chemist cos i was too sick to drive any further and just had to buy the 1st thing i was shown.

keep drinking water petal, dry crackers, no fruit, no milk.

i hope you get better soon.

[Ozziehoffy]

tenar, hun sorry you are sick!! I've had gastro 3 times since Elijah was 2 months old! First one was awful and DH was in Townsville at the time too. I asked my doc about imodium and he doesn't recommend it at all. He said the hydralyte/gastrolyte type of things are best and of course water. Neither of the little ones got sick any of the times I had the bug and my doc said it's less likely to be passed from adult to child as adults understand hygiene (well most lol).

As for the temp, I'm going to agree to disagree with what you've been told. I've been advised (yep by my doc) that a mild grade fever starts at 37.3 and not 37.5. In fact even a friend of mine who is a nurse has also told me this. I always take Oskar off to the docs if his is sitting there as he is inclined to get throat infections and almost without fail if he has this temp then he has a throat infection.

Gigi, OMG I didn't know that could happen, that is indeed really scary!! I have nothing and I also have a child who won't drink from a bottle! Wow. Also, screening out mum's sickness is just WOW amazing!!

tenar I really hope you get better soon to you.