6 years old child gut literally broken after Norovirus

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During Christmas, my child had Norovirus lasting for 3 weeks. He was so poor. Anyways he is still suffering till now, his gut juts stopped working and he is constipated. Yesterday he had ultrasound which showed the large bowel slightly thickned which suggest large bowel inflammation.

gp thinks the thickened bowel and constipation is post Norovirus. I have gone crazy thinking is IBD.
his dairy free. And egg free
calprotectin is 52
they referred us to paediatric but I think I will be admitted to mental health before seeing the doctor. Anyone has any insight 😭
why would his large bowel be thickened if Norovirus was in Christmas

Pretty unlikely to be IBD, with such a low faecal calprotectin. And very rare (though not impossible) at that age. You're absolutely right to try dairy free, given the rate of secondary lactose intolerance after a nasty norovirus. Have you tried any dairy free probiotics yet? They can make a real difference to gut recovery.

I am scared of trying anything at the moment
I booked private gastroenterology doc to be seen Tuesday !

Ma'am, this is a Wendy's.

@YourJollyPoet this thread is by a worried mum about her child. Could you please report your thread and get it moved to a topic other than ‘childrens health’?

Seconding @nocoolnamesleft’s suggestion regarding probiotics. DS had horrific noro a few years ago and was either constipated or had diarrhoea for months afterwards. In the end we went dairy free and bought some good probiotics (look online- they’re not all the same apparently- things like yakult aren’t that good. I remember ours came in straws that I kept in the fridge) and he slowly got better. Took 6 months of dairy free plus probiotics plus carefully managing food (plenty of green veg, protein, carbs) to get him right.

Hope you get him sorted. Please try not to worry. It will improve!