WARNING POO PHOTO IN POST** 5 month old on amoxicillin and awful diarrhoea

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DD is 5 months and finished antibiotics on Friday and has had diarrhoea most of the week. Today it's like this, is it normal for babies to have diarrhoea on amoxicillin?

poor thing ☹️
antibiotics commonly cause digestive upset so not unusual - how many nappies like this is she having in 24 hours? Hard to tell if it could be a separate tummy bug or just the antibiotics….what was she on them for? Is she feeling better with whatever caused her to need antibiotics?

Antibiotics will wipe out your bacteria, good and bad and unfortunately this then affects your tummy. Very common side effect and will clear up once the antibiotics are out of your system but can take a little while for your gut flora to balance again. I'd recommend a probiotic if you can get one.

Oh bless her! Be sure to wash her bum in a warm bath after acidic poo like this, it can get sore so very quickly. At 5 months I’m assuming she’s still just on milk or have you introduced anything solid yet? Baby intestines are super fragile and the amoxicillin will have knocked all the good bacteria away, when that’s mixed with gastric juices you get this nasty frothy acidy stool. I’ve seen plenty of it.
If you were starting to wean give plenty of starchy stuff like root veg and cereal- no fruit . If not, keep feeding as much milk as she’ll take. Give it another 24 hrs and see if things start to get better. You could try a dose of gavsicon it just reduces the amount of acid in the GI tract which may help the gut recover a bit quicker.