Toddler with squits: driving London > Argyll at 6am

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Please can someone help? My DD has had loose poops for 24h now but is starting to complain her tummy hurts and is sleeping fitfully.

This is the same tummy bug DH & I have had but I need to know what I can try to ease her misery between now and the chemist opening (and when it does what to get.

Help! Infant gaviscon has done nowt x

You could try a hard boiled egg. That is old style but it might work.
Would it really be fair on DD to be travelling all the way from London to Argyll when she is clearly unwell and in pain.
Also is it fair to be taking a stomach bug into another area. Who will you be staying with when you arrive.

Banana is also good at slowing things down.

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First trip back to the homeland in two years and it’s self catering.

Appreciate the advice but believe me the trip really kinda has to be made. I don’t feel particularly nice about this but I’m also trying to actually make the first holiday we’ve had in two years actually happen.

Shoving will try a banana; I’ve been giving her mostly toast, weetabix etc

Take plenty of pull up nappies and stop off at a pharmacy for advice and supplies,

Puppy pads in car seat

When DH and I had it we just had a touch of the runs and a few belly cramps (nice) and this is consistent with what DD is saying (she’s almost 3 btw).

Has anyone tried peppermint or a half dose of adult gaviscon or anything?

I know this sounds lunatic but she’s just having trouble dropping off and is mumbling about her tummy - meaning it’s obviosuly sore

Weetabix is probably not a good idea as it is roughage which will make her "go" all the more. How long were you and DH ill with this?
Ask at chemist if there is an Immodium that a tiny could take.
Hope it all goes well. Been to Argyll it is lovely.

Ours lasted about 36-48hrs and wasn’t so bad we couldn’t function but was certainly enough to keep us within a 1m radius of the loo 😬

Weetabix is a bad plan. Too high in fibre. Could you delay your trip by a day? I would hate to be strapped into a car seat with stomach cramps.

I'd go for fluids like sports drink, rehydration salts over water. Don't offer food unless they ask and something very bland like dry toast, crackers.

Get some bed mats or incontinence pads for the car seat. Is she still in nappies?

Tie (safety pin) a bath towel over the back of the seat on front of her.

Line a small washing up bowl with plastic bag. Make sure you have several.

Face wipes, upholstery wipes. Disposable gloves, hand gel.

Clothes - put her in shirt i.e. not something you have to take over her head. Couple of spare sets easy to get to. And spare towels.

Blanket + spare, for car, one in case you need to stop.

Waterproof mattress cover for when you get there.

Please make sure she doesn’t come into contact (service station, supermarket etc) until 48 hours after symptoms have gone. What’s miserable for your family will hospitalise many.
I hope your daughter copes with the journey and you all have a fab holiday

Gaviscon is absolutely not for diarrhoea. Please don't give her that.

Regardless of a holiday ita incredibly unfair to force your toddler to go on such a long journey with a bad stomach.
You said you and DH has to stay within 1M of a loo but are making her travel for hours?

I hope your DD is getting better, personally I would seek medical advice and delay the trip by a day or so, assuming you are travelling by car could be a miserable journey otherwise.

I would just wait until she's feeling better.

I’ve given my toddlers peppermint tea before in very weak doses.

But nothing to actually stop them going. Not sure such a thing exists. Why can’t you delay by one day?

If you needed to be so close to the toilet then the same would apply to her surely?

Don’t give her milk or weetabix. Gaviscon doesn’t help either. Little sips of water and dry crackers.

But I wouldn’t want to be in a car if I was ill and I think it’s unfair to make your child undertake a journey that you wouldn’t have done.

Id postpone for 24 hours. Its only one day and you won't enjoy it anyway if she's ill.

Best plan is to wait til she’s recovered.

Very, very unfair to do this to your child. Delay your trip and put her to bed, for goodness' sake.

Everywhere you stop en route to change her or use the loo you will likely - knowingly - pass on the virus to others.

You used to be able to get pediatric kaolin but I think it's been banned now, shame, as it really gave relief for diarrhoea.

Gaviscon contains artificial sweeteners that have a laxative effect. Weetabix contains a lot of fibre which also gets the bowels moving.

What on earth were you thinking?

DD had a nasty bout of D and V last weekend. She started being ill in the early hours of Thursday morning and only started to feel better on Sunday. We had to cancel all of our weekend plans. There is no way I would have made her leave the house while she was feeling ill. She also had a very sore tummy and found that applying a heated wheatbag helped. The most important thing is to keep her hydrated.

If you are self catering it won't matter if you turn up a day or two later.

Loopytiles. I think OP is goignto go anyway. And this is pretty much the only age you can get away with that. Nappies, travel potty so no need to take child into the services. And going to a self-catering holiday let rather than hotel.
It's not ideal, but their choice.

Honestly I think you need to check into a hotel or something nearby if you have to leave your self catering place. It is really not fair on your daughter travelling all that way regardless. As someone else sais she can potentially make other people sick everywhere she stops. Get plenty of disinfectant wipes and wipe all surfaces and switches down.