diahhrea in one year old... when do you worry?

[mamaesi]

my one year old has horrible diahrrea. she has just finished a course of antibiotics and is teething so i think that is the cause...

but she isnt eating much and the bad tummy continues...

when do you need to go to the doctor? what can they do?

how long is it going on?
a paed once told me that diarhoea in small children often lasts over a week.
you can help by giving her live yoghurt, especially after ab treatment. apart from that just wait and see. just keep up the fluids.

Is she drinking ok?

I would only worry if it went on for weeks or she showed signs of dehydration.

we are only on day two. she is drinking.

what other foods stop you up? what should i try to feed her....even though she isnt eating much

you shouldn't try stop the diarhoea with foods. whatever it is it needs to get out. just a normal diet will do, it will stop by itself when it its finished.

starchy foods are supposed to help and also keep up fluids. Use rehydration sachets if you feel she is getting dehydrated (can get them in the chemist and the supermarket)

now she is vomiting too...

poor thing

should i go to doctor? not sure what they can do

No, don't take her to the doctor. She is probably highly infectious and you will just run the risk of infecting everyone else at the surgery. So long as she doesn't go seriously floppy or her temperature rocket then she will probably be feeling much much better by this time tomorrow. In the meantime don't feed her anything but offer frequent sips of water. In all likelihood she has a tummy bug.

Keep the fatty foods down to a minimum - a GP told me this once when I had cryptosporidia infection and it does really help speed up the recovery. Keep up her fluid intake as she's losing lots with the diarrhoea to avoid dehydration. Dioralyte is a rehydration sachet you can get; will help to replace important electrolytes as well.

Phone NHS direct if you're really worried, if she starts a temperature or if it doesn't settle after 24h.

Flat ginger ale or lucozade is also good to drink - lots of vomiting and diarrhoea can reduce blood sugar as well, so while you don't want to cause it to spike unnecessarily, it needs to be kept up a little because low blood sugar can also make you feel really ill/sick. The best way I have found of flattening fizzy drinks is by adding water - takes all the fizz out.