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Anyone else have a skinny dc that poos for England??

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bootus · 11/09/2010 12:21

I'll try and keep this brief.... Smile. DS, just 2 has always been a skinny little thing (Dad and I are slim). He dropped through the weight centiles quite quickly after his 1st birthday due to various bugs that winter. He was a refluxy baby and, to my dismay, has never been a good eater. He also poos at least 4 times a day, normally quickly after he has eaten. A very good day would be 3 poos, a bad day, maybe 6. I posted on here about 9 months ago very worried about his lack of weight gain and was told to seek advice re coeliac disease which I duly did. Upshot is we were referred and the blood tests, thank goodness, came back clear. We were discharged from the paed gastroenterologist as he had gained some weight over the summer with a hight fat diet and all was well. However the last few weeks he has gone backwards, eating very little and pooing frequently, often his stools are a pale colour. I dont know where to go next but still fell something isn't right. He seems to get bugs very easily but in all other ways is happy and developing normally...am I being over anxious and this is just the way he is or do I need to ask for more tests...if so...what?????

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nightcat · 19/09/2010 14:10

I like your dr!
:)

bootus · 19/09/2010 20:39

I like him too...(helps that he's easy on the eye Wink)
Update: brown poo tonight! yay!

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nightcat · 19/09/2010 21:26

Our consultant is too (almost a crush :-o)
Glad things are better :)

BTW, dairy intolerance is normally a consequence of gluten damage, so you probably have nothing to worry about in terms of looking for more foods to eliminate as long as you use a wide variety.

Booner · 01/10/2010 09:43

Hi Bootus, just wondered how things were going?

ilovesprouts · 01/10/2010 22:25

hey im in the same boat my son had 6 poos in one day as wll

bootus · 03/10/2010 21:57

Hi Booner, thanks for checking in....well all was well until this weekend when he came down with a raging gastro bug, its puke and diarrhoea galore round here!!! Feel a bit down as felt like we were really getting somewhere and its hard to see his weight dropping again, although I know the bug is nothing to do with the gf diet. As for the diet, its been good, not as hard as I thought and although not an immediate improvement we have had 3 hard poos a day and his eating has improved with (normally) a really good evening meal eaten. He seems to like all the snacks too. I'm going to keep going for a few months as feel we are on the right track. Thanks again.
Sprouts - I got some great advice on here and if your dc has similar symptoms to mine then have alook at it....xx

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Booner · 04/10/2010 22:37

Hi Bootus,

Thanks for the update, really sorry you've got the gastro bug - it's been doing the rounds at our school.

Glad to hear you are not finding the gf diet too troublesome and there has been some improvement.

Wishing him a speedy recovery!

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