Immodium

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Have you/would you give your 6 year old immodium? DD has had diarrhoea for 7 days now, absolutely well in herself and eating fine (but I've put her on the BRAT diet for the last few days) completely controlled diarrhoea but when she does go (2 or 3 times a day) it's loose and lots of it. She saw the doc about this and feeling breathless and they said its definitely just a virus and let it run its course. But it's half term we have loads planned and she's bouncing off the walls. Thoughts?

YABU absolutely do not give an under 12 immodium
YANBU I've done it/I would do it

No. Prescription only for under 12s, and the doctor would adjust the dose accordingly.

Are you a doctor or a pharmacist? Why on Earth would you gamble giving a medicine to your child that you can't possibly fully understand the potential consequences for. It's no licensed for children for a reason.

No.

In America and Europe its licensed for 2 years and up 🤷‍♀️ it seems to be uk only that it's 12 and up. I was just going to give her half a tablet.

I wouldn't no.

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Has anyone tried this gel or any other remedies if not?

I had similar for days, turned out it was covid. Finally stopped on day 8. I used Imodium and as soon as the medication wore off, the diarrhoea started again.

The advice was to leave it without medication if I could as it stops you holding onto the virus. However, I was dehydrating and needed a chance to hold onto something.

Much sympathy, it’s been awful.

So you saw a trained medical professional who said to let it run it's course and then decided to come on mumsnet and ask random strangers who may or may not be medically trained if you should ignore the doctor's advice?

Well it’s also licensed in the UK on prescription for 4-7y olds at 1mg ie a half tablet. Just sayin…

We’ve used a similar thing (different brand name) to help with my DC who has IBS. It’s effective. Best not used if any likelihood of a virus still in their system though. You might need to just suck it up for a few more days. I hope your daughter is back to normal soon.

Not the diarrhoea- he was just talking about the virus in general. At the time we saw him it wasn't really diarrhoea- more lumpy poo twice a day- we saw him because of the breathlessness. Her stats were all absolutely fine hence he said it's just a virus. I had covid about 3 weeks ago so could be that.

I've only got the meltlet tablets would that be the same?

Yes..if prescribed.. that's the point

By the way, BRAT isn’t recommended for kids now as it lacks the nutrition that they need for the gut to recover. We avoid dairy because that’s problematic for my DC, but otherwise try and go with a regular healthy diet.

Interesting. I've heard live yogurt might help but there's lots of conflicting views.

This is pretty much exactly the guidelines we’ve been given to follow. Hope it helps. https://www.oregonclinic.com/diets-BRAT

Perhaps ask a pharmacist's opinion?

Spoke to a pharmacist and he recommended enterosgel but no where has it in stock. He said half an immodium wouldn't hurt til the doctors open but in a very 'I didn't tell you that' sort of way.

Just to say the half immodium tablet worked a treat! Would definitely do that again and not bother the doc. Unless she's actually ill like a proper tummy bug and off her food etc.