Diarrhoea

[Emsie1987]

Hi, my 14 month old has had soft stools for a while but nothing that I would consider diarrhoea. About six weeks ago he started having more frequent soft stools a day and by the last one it would be liquid. We went on holiday to Spain during this period and he also had a gastrobug three weeks ago. I have asked the gp to do a stool sample to rule how a bug and it came back negative for rotavirus. Doctor advised to start removing food for 2 months at a time and we started on dairy. He has been off dairy for two weeks now and no improvement. Some days he doesn't go and other times he goes 4-5 times. Nursery have commented today that his still having it (they know it's an ongoing problem) and my husband said I need to do more. While his in the two month period of no dairy I just thought this would be what it is if it wasn't dairy until we move on to another food group. But should I ask for more tests?

Could be Toddler's diarrhoea?

I thought that as well.

Forgot to mention his eczema has also flared up at the same time

Could be a food allergy if the eczema has flared up at the same time

My daughter has a sensitive stomach and the following things have caused her to have loose stools/ diarrhoea - allergies, colds, teething, stress (8 poos in 2h the night before we moved house!) and toddler diarrhoea. We tore our hair out before getting the toddler diarrhoea diagnosis trying to figure out if it was another allergen. Signs that our paediatrician has for it being toddler diarrhoea was there being undigested food in the stools and she started going first thing so there was always a soiled nappy when we got her up.

What have you replaced dairy with? Half of babies are also allergic to soya so if you swap dairy for soya and they are allergic to both it will look like the dairy free diet isn't helping as one allergen has been swapped for another. If you are using oat products and are using Alpro try switching to a different brand. Alpro has pea protein in and it's becoming an increasing problem. My daughter can't tolerate it (completely fine with peas!) but is fine with the other brands.

Thank you for your help.

They seem to be in the early hours of the morning and then another two to three times in the morning. Sometimes it can be in the afternoon.

We firstly swapped to soya, then I read most dairy allergies cannot drink soya so now we are on oat milk and yoghurts.