Hi, bit of a long story this but I was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience.
DS is EBF and used to do the normal mustard-like bf poos with perhaps one green one a day until he was 7 weeks old when he started having very watery diahorrea, plus mucus and streaks of blood in his nappy. He seemed otherwise ok and was gaining weight so hv and gp said it's a bug and will clear in 2 weeks max.
It didn't!
I went back to the gp who referred us to a paed who said it's either a lactose intolerance and will sort itself or, more likely, a cows milk intolerance and should be sorted within a couple of weeks of me cutting out all dairy from my diet. This was 2.5 weeks ago and there's been no change until yesterday when ds started straining. We waited for the usual bottom explosion but nothing happened- he just carried on straining until he was screaming in pain. This happened again last night as we were putting him to bed and then again in the early hours of the morning. He is particularly uncomfortable when on his back. The straining/screaming is accompanied by drawn up knees and a very solid feeling belly. He's never been a colicky/windy baby though.
He has also had a couple of rank brownish/green poos that, for the first time in weeks, did not shoot out with great force.
Could it be that he's starting to get better but his little tummy can't cope with anything not the consistancy of water? Or am I being overly hopeful there? It breaks my heart to see him in such pain
Not sure whether to just check with the hv or to get an emergency gp appointment. Sorry for the long rambling post! Feeling very tired!
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Continuous diahorrea in BF 3mo- now he's straining and in pain(?!)
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ParanoidAtAllTimes · 19/10/2009 08:28
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