campylobacter in 2 yr old

[monkey]

My ds was diagnosed last week with campylobacter. He fell in on 23rd August with high temp etc. next day he had really bad diarrhoea. Since then he's been white, & never seemed himself. Some days his diarrhoea has been almost cleared up, but then yesterday it was really bad again. i've been given some mediication for him to clear up the diarrhoea & improve the flora of the gut, but we don't seem any further forward. I keep having to keep him home from playgroup, he had lost weight he seems happy enough, just deathly white & poorly poos as he calls it. Apart from avaoiding milk, any ideas on how I can help him get over it, poor little mite. this has been over 3 weeks now.

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monkey, my dog and dh and I had campylobacter a couple of years ago. We had to take antibiotics. The dog's was worse and she eventually went on a herbal remedy which sorted her out. I agree with twiglett, seek an alternative remedy.

Could be that you need to try a different antibiotic. There are loads of different strains of Campylobacter & you might just have one that responds better to a diff antibiotic.

ps pre DS I used to spend my day testing for Campylobacter amongst other things. Just what I wanted when I was already feeling icky with morning sickness

as in testing 'stools'? Yuk. I must say as I shoveled up a bit of poor ds's poo & popped in in the bottle, i wondered which poor soul would have the pleasure of opening my special little parcel.

btw - are antibiotics essential, because he hasn't been prescribed them at all...

Sorry, know this is off subject a bit but a friend of a friend (really!) in New York had to give a stool sample. His doctor and work were near Times Square, so he put his sample in a big brown envelope (in a pot) and took it to work. At lunchtime he walked out of his office to take it to the doctor and got mugged - the only thing taken was a big, brown envelope!

Still makes me laugh when I think of the mugger opening that envelope.

Fabulous CountD, Monkey, take him to the Osteo, if that doesn't work, last effort should be the antibiotics.

Monkey, did they do a culture? Ring the doctor and get the results and ask for further info on what to do. I've always been told to start a BRAT diet with the boys when they have diarrhea (Bananas, Rice, Apples, Toast) -- all good things to stop them up again.

Here's the CDC info on Campylobacter. Good luck.

thanks all, esp jj. Luckily this ds prefers juice over milk - if it was ds1 it'd be major trauma. Luckily he likes all 4 of the BRAT, & that's easy to remember. Also luckily they're BIG into homeopathy over here (thb I'm luke warm on it), but will give it a go, anything to help the poor little sausage. Got a constituation like his dad.

I'm reviving this thread as my ds has just been diagnosed with campylobacter after a week of terrible diarrhoea. Poor thing, he's just shattered, nothing is being digested, and he's just asked if he can go to bed and it's 6pm. Monkey - did you use any alternative therapies on your ds in the end? Did anything seem to help? I've stopped milk and there are a lot of half-eaten bananas dotting the house....

poor you W - I had this once - blinking awful....