Gastro in 10 month old

[Pandora]

If you have any doubt, then at least go to a GP who should be able to tell at a glance whether you need to go to hospital or not.
I was told with DS, that if he looks/seems dehydrated, floppy, not paying attention etc to take him.

There is a lot of conflicting info around about gastro, even from medical professionals.

DS has had at least 4 bouts of gastro ( all except one since starting at creche), and they have varied from vomiting twice and a bit runny nappies for 2 days, then nothing, to contants outputs at both ends for 4-5 days, to the last episode of no vomiting but constant runs for 10+ days.

I went to the doctors at least 4 times with that one. The first time I was told to keep his diet normal (he was still pretty happy for a boy with gastro, and had a good appetite) and milk etc. the next one said nothing except hydrolyte for 8 hours. we ended up having to do that twice, cos the first time I tried to reintroduce milk it all went haywire. So back to fluid and bland food (plain rice, plain pasta etc) for a while and eventually milk was OK again.

The South Australian CYH website has some good information on gastro if you want to google it. Theres info for b/f, f/f and older babies. If you want I can email or send you the link via msn.

Good luck, I hope its just a mild case for your little one.