Hi all
Please advise me what you think this could be...
We have an appointment for doctors next week.
My dd is 2yrs old. She will be 3 in a couple weeks. For perhaps the last 6-9months she has been suffering with loose, very loose bowel movements upto 4 times a day. Before she had a pretty good diet, she would eat everything, rice, potatoes, chips, pasta, milk, chicken, fish, some veg but loved fruit. I never allow fizzy drinks only on special occasion and has to be sugar free etc.
But her diet has completely changed, she has gone off everything. I have to really encourage her to eat and even then it will be small. She used to eat eggs but then eggs give her a bad tummy, only eats certain types of chips, she refuses to eat all veg, she doesn't really like rice anymore, hates food touching sauces, will not eat anything except plain beige food to the point where I am sadly feeding her chicken fingers, nuggets often and trying to give her other things, she does take noodles here and there but even that gives her diarrhoea.
She would happily eat chicken nuggets 4 times.a day and 5 packets of crisps. I'm trying different things, feeding her and making it fun but she's fussy and cries.
She is only interested in crisps, apples and chicken and cereal. I swapped to oat milk and almond milk in thinking perhaps its lactose intolerant as the diarrhoea was worse after having chocolate and milk and cheese. But she still has it. She is very fussy with cereal also but only wants Krave.
It all started around spring when her poo stools became less and she would go over on the floor like on all fours like a crab, hunkered down and straining. She will then diarrhoea for about ten minutes solid and the smell is horrific.
Sometimes she doubles over and you can see in her face its painful. But she never complains.
Now there is blood in the diarrhoea. She hasn't done a hard poo in months. I have spoken to the health visitor and when she caught a bug and had a problem with her skin, I raised it again with the doctors then but they dismissed saying Sometimes its normal for toddlers to have diarrhoea when they eat a lot of fruit. She's always been tubby but now she's smaller.
The diarrhoea comes in two types, looks like very, very dark melted icecream very very watery with no texture, basically like chocolate milkshake. Or slightly darker colour beige, sloppy porridge with snot and blood in it. The blood is like streaky and small.
I am trying to get an appointment but its ridiculous at my surgery.
She has diarrhoea like 5 minutes after eating chocolate so I stopped that.
She has diarrhoea after chips. We cut out the dairy for like a week. She still had it. She won't eat much. She's still happy but when the diarrhoea comes on she can't control it. She's still in nappies and am trying to potty train but she's hysterical sitting on a trainer seat so we got the floor type potty. Hates that too. She goes through four clothes changes a day. I cant even put the clothes in the wash, as I have to sit over the shower rinsing out all the diarrhoea first as it explodes. She doesn't complain of the pain. She's a very sweet girl who sort of just gets on with it. But she puts her head down, her face is red and she's clenching onto the side of the bath.
I keep pushing for the doctors but they minimise it by saying kids get diarrhoea/bugs etc. Was finly able to get an appointment for next week and am going to try and ring again today and tomorrow to get her seen sooner.
Does anyone know what this could be??
Is it gluten / celiac/ lactose???? Food allergy? Long term infection
I'm at my wits end.
Hoping the doctors will help.
Thank you for reading.