My DS is 5 and has always loved fruit and not been a fan of many other foods. He has always been slim and has always had reasonably loose stools which we put down to the fruit. As a baby/toddler he was a big milk drinker.
In the past 3 months his food intake has reduced. He frequently has diarrhoea and on 2 occasions he has vomited with no other symptoms (I think he may have had gastric flu the first time though). He often complains of feeling like he's going to be sick.
I weighed him tonight and he weighs the same as he did 12m ago and 1.5kg less than he did 5m ago. He is on the 9th centile when he has always been 25th.
In a day he eats a yoghurt and cereal, a fruit for snack (can't be anything else at school), a school lunch (I don't know what he has but he says tomato cucumber and bread today) and for dinner it is a battle to get him to eat more than a handful of food.
Due to the diarrhoea I have banned all fruit except banana (and what he has at school).
I have an appointment at the GP for him but I'm not sure what they will say about the above. I don't want to be fobbed off because I am concerned about him.
Does anyone have any advice or suggestions as to how I should proceed? Should I be going to the GP?