Define diarrhoea! Definitely going to be a TMI thread!

[PlayNoBill]

Define diarrhoea! And I mean literally! I have had a letter from my 14 mo DS nursery asking all children not to attend if they have had D or V for 48 hours. Totally respect that, but his nappies can range from the consistency of an Ella's pouch to sausage meat. If I were to quarantine him every time he had a 'bad' nappy we would never leave the house!!

I have looked at the Bristol Stool Chart and I would say he ranges from a 3 to a 6 most of the time, but never a 7! Is 7 more like scotch broth, lentil soup? He had that once when he had a temperature and other symptoms so yes we did stay at home then.

Interested how others would describe diarrhoea!

Diarrhoea is watery, not just loose.

I wouldn't say it was just consistency - one loose bowel movement is not necessarily diarrhoea.
I think it has to be repeated, and frequent to require keeping off school/nursery etc IT is obviously trying to prevent spreading an infection - IME such infections rarely result in one loose visit to the loo!