Diarrhea - now day 4

[Snacks]

What's she eating, Liz? If it is a strain of gastro that will probably have stripped her gut a little bit, which will make it harder to digest her food properly. Giving her more non-fibrous food for a little while might help. Things like white foods (bread, rice), noodles, banana, crackers. Of course the breastmilk is tops for it as you know.
I'd try restricting the diet to non-fibrous stuff first and then if it still keeps up I'd have a trip to the drs just in case.
Hope she is better soon.

[Liz]

Yeah, she's been having rice, pasta, toast, crackers (rice cakes). She's had bits and pieces of salad and a few bits of meat & veg with the rice & pasta. The cucumber was one of the things that came through undigested, same with some onion LOL. So gross. The only fruit she's had has been a little tub of peaches. Don't recall that going straight through.. I've run out of fresh fruit.. need to go shopping.

She doesn't seem to have any tummy pains with it. Altho the first night & day I think she did have some tummy cramps. Now all she does is pat the front of her nappy and say 'poo' and then you hear it bubble forth. Blerk. i think if anything she was getting upset because of her nappy rash. But that's clearing up now, so now she just poos and carries on as normal.

[aussienic]

Whats the yoghurt you buy to help the gut heal?? Would she eat that?

also if she will eat apples. slice them and let them brown n the bench.. I know it is meant for runny ones but might help out..

Olivia's have been pretty rotten this week but have eased off now and are less gross looking. Still stinky but back to a normal colour

[Liz]

Well I decided to ring Health Direct Australia this morning. The nurse was lovely and assessed Kayla. She said it sounded like viral gastro (something or other lol) and to just modify her food for a few days. So nothing sweet, no fruit, except bananas. She said sugar makes diarrhea 100 times worse. Give her rice, pasta, crackers, cooked carrot. Avoid high fibre cereals etc.

She said it can last 5-7 days.

So pretty much what we were saying here Except I didn't know about sugar making it worse. I don't think she has a lot of sugar.. but I'll probably be surprised how much she does have now that I'll have a stricter eye on it

[Snacks]

Good to know about the sugar - I'll keep that in mind for next time the tummy bugs hit our home.

[LimeSlice]

Give her a spoonful off Strawberry juice. Just a dessert spoonful.
Should clear it up... (eta the diarrhoea that is)


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