20-month-old, scary poo

[NotQuiteCockney]

DS2's poo started going wrong yesterday morning, and has been seriously wrong since last night. He seems to poo every fifteen minutes or so, producing essentially moist food and dirty water. I'm not sure he's peeing. His bottom looks, and clearly is, mindbogglingly sore.

The really weird bit is, he's generally fine. He's eating well, running about, full of energy. He's drinking water, and mostly his usual self.

I've tried offering dioralyte, but he doesn't seem to want it. I'm changing him often, not using wipes (they make him cry!), and using lots of very nice cream.

Should I offer iboprofen or something for the discomfort? How long does this need to go on before I take him to the docs? I'm trying to steer him away from high-fibre food (not with that much success), is that worth the hassle?

I refuse to have sharp knives in the house. There is nothing I need to do that I can't eventually do with a nice blunt one.

Erm, you could have had stitches from the sound of it. Oh well. It will leave a nice butch scar for you :)

From what I know, you're more likely to cut yourself with blunt knives. I can't stand blunt knives, but am too lazy to sharpen them. So our general household policy is, lots of cheap serrated ones. But these new ones are pricey, and have all bent, presumably from being dishwashed?

I am always struggling with knives and hand injuries. I have a mandoline, so I am hardcore with the finger-removal devices.

Oh, and when I saw the first bit of your post, in the preview bit:

"I refuse to have sharp knives in the house. There is nothing I need to do that I can't eventually do with ..."

I was really hoping it was going to end "my teeth".

(And how do you shred cabbage without a sharp knife? Or slice anything thinly?)

LOL @ "my teeth"

Well I don't think I do slice things thinly. Cabbage seems ok cut badly with a blunt knife to me. I do have a bit of a knife phobia. I don't cut myself though, not since I gave up using sharp knives.

I'm always trying to stir-fry cabbage, or make coleslaw or something with it. Although I guess I grate it for coleslaw.

You should consider a mandoline, you can cut really evenly with one, and if you use the guard (wimp!) you really can't cut any bits of you off.

PMSL Get down to A&E and sort that finger out and dh definitely has to go and get some white bread, its what he deserves for moaning. If ds is drinking loads and breastfeeding then he shouldn't be dehrydrate.

I don't care if my coleslaw is uneven, really. Stop obsessing about the measurements of your vegetables and get someone to sew your digits back on, woman

You know, with a mandoline, you can choose how many mm thick all the slices (of finger or cabbage, or both!) will be. Heston Blumenthal recommends them, although he does get a bit snarky on the subject of needing to use the guard ...

I really don't need to go to the doctor, my thumb is ok, I will probably have a scar, but I'm covered in scars. It's not started bleeding again, and the flap actually looks pretty firmly attached. I'll probably put some tape on it for the night, so it doesn't peel off and I wake screaming and bloody.

Thumb and bottom update:

Thumb is ok, kept a simple bandage on it all night, and even managed to shower this morning (woohoo! first time since Monday! hurrah!).

DS2's bottom is looking almost entirely better. He's pooed once since getting up, and it was gross, but maybe not as bad as yesterday's - didn't just look like dirty food. He was even goofing around while I was changing him, and shouting at me and angry for changing him, rather than in tears and pain.

I have bitten the bullet and am trying to do BART with him. No problems with him, but unsurprisingly, DS1 is really pissed off. We had a huge fight over breakfast options (he wanted honey and ham, or honey and tomatoes. I probably should have just let him have honey and tomatoes, but was narked off as I hadn't managed to have any cereal yet myself.). DS2 had plain bread with a tiny bit of honey, and was happy. God knows what he'll eat for lunch. I'll go for low-fibre anyway, even if I can't entirely manage BART.

Oh hooray, good news all round, especially about the fact you no longer smell

I think a breakfast of honey and tomoatoes was probably unwise in the circumstances.

No poo since the small one this morning! Hurrah! I doubt it was bart that fixed it, but it certainly can't have hurt.

Glad he is getting better.

Grrr. Two poos yesterday, some progress towards being better. He was on near-bart, certainly low-fibre yesterday, although he did have normal (brown) pasta at tea. He didn't eat that much anyway.

He got up this morning, had a poo, had lots of boob, threw up a tiny bit (unusual for him these days). Had some breakfast (low-fibre cereal), and then pooed again. And his bottom is starting to look angry again. But I guess if I am persistent with regular changes and lots of cream, it won't get bad again.

I'll also at least keep him off the nuts and raisins, as that was most of what was coming through undigested ...

i find that the main benefit of bart is that I'm doing something . it always seems to work for me but totally unscientific measurement of success. seems good. I'm pretty sure we've met in rl btw, will email you if i still have your email addy. I moved away just after working on nearly new sale. Apologies if we haven't.

Oh, we probably have met then! You just had baby #2 around that time?

Yeah, I used to be a big fan of bart, but it's hard to enforce bart on DS2 with DS1 demanding his normal food, and DS2 wanting whatever DS1 has.

that's right. i think we had a chat about cs's when i dropped the money in. Does that mean you know who i am then? I realised who you were when you referred to the type of buildign work you're having done. didn't think there were many canadians in that area doing that work, oh and scallywags.

know what you mean about bart. luckily for me #1 is a fussy eater and prefers plain food and #2 is like a dustbin and doesn't notice what otehr one has. but your two are older than mine and i expect t'will all change.

I do indeed know who you are, or did, once you said about the NNS.

DS2 continues to be a poo mystery. This morning, on awakening, he was covered in sticky yellow wet poo. (His poos nearly never escape the nappy, never like this!) And since then ... no poo at all.

Friday, he pooed a lot. Although we haven't had wet gross food for a while.

If he's still weird on Monday, I'll take him to the GP, I guess.

just after you started this thread dd2 started on a similar pooing journey. she has now recovered and her bot is less red following a day naked in the garden. sounds like your ds has got it all out now perhaps?

Who knows ... it's been going on for ages.

I am so so so sick of cleaning up poo.

And to pick him up this morning and suddenly find my arm wet with poo ... ugh ugh ugh.