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Fasting to Cure Diarrhea - Help!

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/06/2006 07:09

Ok, I have had diarrhea since Sundayish. It has gotten worse and worse. I haven't eaten anything since yesterday morning. (Before that, I was mostly having v simple foods, anyway, and not much.)

I haven't even had juice or tea, just water. Nothing else.

I still have diarrhea. Not loads of it, but certainly some.

Do I eat now? Do I keep fasting until the diarrhea stops? Do I have some diluted apple juice?

I feel pretty wobbly (shocker) and my abdomen is pretty tender, but the GP checked me yesterday, and thinks this is just a viral thing.

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FrannyandZooey · 09/06/2006 09:00

Will email you later

(can I catch it via email? Shock note to self: must Dettol the computer)

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 09:03

It can't be that contagious. DS2 might have had it last week, but if he did, it just gave him the squits, no discomfort, fever, misery, loss in appetite, despair, etc etc. DH was slightly off colour around the same time, but again, not as wrong as I have been. DS1 hasn't been ill at all.

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 12:25

Can I eat an avocado? I want an avocado!

Damnit.

Maybe I'll go boil some rice in my neighbours house. I'm de-fizzying some crappy industrial lemonade (with salt, yum!).

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LIZS · 09/06/2006 12:46

When I was recovering form my bout (think I posted on your other thread) the dr advised me to eat a little of whatever I fancied including dairy etc. Have you taken any probiotics (Boots do it in capsule form with the vitamins etc and i still take it when I remember) - really can limit the duration and restore your gut function Smile

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 12:49

I have some yakult in the house, as I gave some to DS2 earlier this week. It did seem to help him, he'd just had a foul tummy bug and was recovered, but pooing out something that looked suspicously like gravel.

Hmm, I think I might move to the "whatever I want" model tomorrow, but I am just too afraid of this coming back to risk much today. I was so sick of being sick last night, I was actually sobbing. Not ideal. I even miss my kids!

(I am feeling loads better, hence me poking about and seeing what vegetables etc have survived a week of everyone else living on ready meals. I might make up some big things and freeze them or something. At least, once they re-hook-up my hob ...)

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Fimbo · 09/06/2006 12:57

My ds has got this nasty bug too, he has had it since last Saturday, he was really poorly at the weekend with a high temp and just wanting to sleep all the time. The temp has gone now but it still having the runs, he is still in nappies and has now got chronic nappy rash because of it. Took him to the Docs today who gave me canestene cream. I have being trying to leave his nappy off but pools of diahorrea everywhere is not pleasant!

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 13:00

Even without a nappy, you can get nappy rash from this one.

Is your DS eating? I've found fasting (just water) seemed to help a fair bit.

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FrannyandZooey · 09/06/2006 13:01

Jeez, NQC, I thought I got cranky if denied food for a while

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Fimbo · 09/06/2006 13:02

He is only 2.5 and doesn't say a lot! He craves food and it seems mean to deny it. He has been drinking loads of water though. Hope you feel better soon.

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 13:04

F&Z, I am dizzy and horrible. But better than yesterday. And I will eat some more today, I just have to work out how to get some. Stupid builders.

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 13:05

Oh, he might well throw it off without fasting, then. I think DS2 had this bug, although he didn't seem poorly, just making terrible poo. I did cut fibre out of his diet, as much as I could, and that seemed to help quite a bit. Even now, a week or so after he's stopped being poorly, I'm still trying to stop him having dried fruit or nuts.

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FrannyandZooey · 09/06/2006 13:07

NQC, I am sorry, I am following you around making cheeky remarks to try and distract you from your misery, but perhaps not the best plan.

I do wish you were feeling better.

On the bright side for the rest of us, though, you are posting loads :o

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 13:08

I am indeed. I think I am almost feeling good enough to go off and hit things with a big stick. (DH keeps checking the big 'puter when he comes in at night, and can tell I'm still ill by the fact his game is still in it ;-))

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FrannyandZooey · 09/06/2006 13:09

What do you play?

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 13:10

I don't mind being followed about, I have no children today, it's a very strange feeling.

I didn't really see DS1 for 24 hours (well, didn't touch him for that long) with all this, and yesterday and today, I've had 10 hours in a row away from DS2 which is by far the longest ever. I'm quite relieved to find out that the Horrible Nursery is ok when it's not half term, and may use them a bit more, as we have 20 days / year there, for nothing.

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 13:10

Oblivion. It's terrible, but I do love it.

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 13:10

I lie, actually, I think it's semi-defensible as a vidgame. Violent, but funny and strange.

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 18:51

I am doing quite a bit better. Have only had three slices of toast and two spoonsful of fish pie (with cheese! I know, exactly what I shouldn't have but whatever, it's only two spoonsful).

I might make some white rice, if I can be bothered trecking over to a neighbour's to do it.

Annoyingly, putting in worktops involves very bad solventy smells, which I have a hard time with at the best of times, but when wobbly and weak, they are really quite offputting.

But the worktops look good, and will indeed be done. Tomorrow I will have a hob.

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FrannyandZooey · 09/06/2006 18:55

Ah, I have been looking for you. Well it all sounds very encouraging, I think we shall be expecting you to feel a bit perkier tomorrow :)

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/06/2006 21:01

I ate a biggish bowl of white rice (wrote "shite" rice the first time around), with some good soy sauce and salt on it, and nothing else. Tomorrow I think I'll be onto nearly normal food. Thank god. I don't think I could have managed another day of feeling completely rubbish.

Email me about the picnic thing. I'm pretty sure next door will be done, or done enough to have people sleep in it, by then.

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NotQuiteCockney · 10/06/2006 08:37

And today I feel practically bouncy. Well, my gut is feeling a bit wrong, but not in the same way, and nowhere near as bad. It always takes a while to properly bounce back from this sort of thing. (I have yakult in the fridge, and might have one. But presumably not until I'm on dairy again?)

Have had a slice of watermelon, and will have some pb on white toast. Not very hungry.

The really weird bit is, I feel practically bouncy. I want to go running. Or take the kids out for a bike ride. Maybe a reaction against not leaving the house properly since Tuesday?

I'll probably end up taking both kids to the park, as DH appears to be maybe coming down with the same bug, damnit. We nearly never get hit by the same virii.

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FrannyandZooey · 10/06/2006 08:37

NQC hope you are feeling even more human today. Am just going to email you. :)

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NotQuiteCockney · 10/06/2006 08:37

(Oh, won't take the kids out on the bike, as I nearly fell down the stairs on Thursday, and don't trust myself not to go wrong again.)

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FrannyandZooey · 10/06/2006 08:38

OOh, cross posts. There you are :)

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NotQuiteCockney · 10/06/2006 10:24

ha ha ha ha

The antenatal class this morning, the first one since I took over the job, has gone entirely wrong.

The teacher was sure the classes were next Saturday and the one after. Everyone else involved thought it was this Saturday and the next one.

So one of our volunteers is at the venue, waiting for 8 really pregnant women and their partners, to tell them, "whoops!".

I have to sort out somewhere to have the class on the Saturday after next, and refund the appropriate people and be really apologetic.

Of course, it's not clear where the misunderstanding arose, but it had nothing to do with me. The reminder email I sent to the teacher, a couple of weeks ago, had the right dates on it.

Because, yes, stress and work was just what I needed today.

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