Hi- looking for advice and reassurance. Advance apologies for the length of this.
DS (10mos in 1 week) is worrying me a bit. Over Easter he ate mountains of food and still had BM as normal. Then last Thurs/ Fri, not so rapaciously hungry- no worries, we thought he was returning to normal. But his appetite seems to have dwindled since then. He started cutting out meals and has not really eaten properly in 2.5 days- just 2 Organix rice cakes yesterday! His poos have got more frequent (about 3 p/d) and explosive (monumental effort on Weds- like a holiday in Basra). Now it's more like diarrhoea, but is a pale yellow. He is still drinking, in fact is making his milk sign very often (do demand feeds most of time).
After 7-8 long months, we had just got a nice little routine going and it's all out of the window. That doesn't worry me so much; it's the fact that it's such a big change in so short a time and has been going on for close to a week. He seems generally happy otherwise, though on Weds afternoon played happily only with me very very close by. Rest of family say it's just teething. He is drooling like mad, and wants to bite everything- even the carpet. He has 4 teeth already but didn't have these issues when he cut those teeth. However he did have green nappies before teeth came. And his cheeks flushed at night. No flushed cheeks or green poo this time round- just what I mentioned before, and also that his complexion looks a bit flat to me, and he has a couple of spots, dribble rash and a few "patches" on his butt. We try to keep him immediately dry and clean.
I just wonder if any of you have any ideas what might be the underlying cause? Should I be concerned? No one else seems to think so.