It goes on and on................I need more advice PLEASE!

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Been having trouble with ds's poo for 6 months or more. It is like liquid at times and very very smelly. He has had around 5 solid poos since the day he was weaned and he is 2 years old.

Went to GP who said he had a gut infection and prescribed us medicine, the medicine seemed to work a bit but when it finished, his poos went back to normal. So took him back and the GP said he had a problem with his bowels, gave us same medicine but for a longer period. Same thing happened. Took him back today and the GP said he has a cold (yeah?), we said what about this poo thing? Even his creché are telling us that something is not right, it's not normal! But GP said, "Oh, it's ok, just wait until he's 5!" then as an afterthought he has written out a prescription for Coproculture, looked that up on Net and it seems to be a bacteria. Thing is I don't want to be giving him a bacteria if it might make things worse.

How can the doc go from saying he has an infection, to a problem with his bowels, to there is no problem at all! I've no confidence in him, it's close to Christmas and I doubt we'll be able to do anything till after Christmas now. So should I give him this Coproculture? Without a proper diagnoses I'm uncertain whether to risk it or not, but dh thinks we should.

Any advice please?

Rhubarb: I posted this ages ago, I believe in probiotics and I also think if you could take him off dairy for a minimum of 3 weeks, it might help. Then you can add back in and see what happens, here is the info:

Probiotics Nature's Internal Healers by Natasha Trenev, ISBN: 0-89529-847-3
She recommends: DDS-1 Super Strain and the Dairy-Free NAS Super Adhesion Strain. For Bifidus she recommends Bifidum Malyoth Super Strain in a dairy free organic base of modified garbanzo bean extract. For infants: the infantis NLS super strain. She also recommends LB-51 (for adults), which is the Lactobacillus Bulgaricus Super Strain. This stuff is magical and is worth a try!! She says to avoid probiotics made with FOS (Fructoligosaccharides) she believes they need more testing on this, it is a sugar derivative and can stimulate yeast infections, it is similar to Olestra in that it is inert in the mouth and the small intestine, it is digested in the colon by the bacteria there and she believes it may affect the metabolic activity on the colon.

Wow! Does that come in English too?

I will try the probiotics first. Sorry if I seem reluctant to restrict his diet, but cutting out dairy or wheat is a big thing. If the probiotics don't make a difference in 3 weeks I will change his diet.

Thanks for all the advice! At least now I have two routes to go down, if one doesn't work I can follow the other. And I'm presuming that if it is a yeast infection, the lab will pick that up too, so I should know.

Thanks again!

rhubarb
I think you are right to be careful about restricting his diet. just try one thing after another, its all you can do really. if obvious things like milk or wheat dont work, then consider getting him tested for allergies.

also bear in mind that if a person has several allergies, they can get better when ONE allergen is removed. then the body readjusts, so the person gets ill again, until the other allergens are also removed.
So if you eliminate wheat for example, and he improves dramatically for a few weeks, then goes back to the same, it probably wasnt your imagination.

sorry, am an allergy bore, lost my teens and 20s to them

I'm not having any more kids!