What more can I do for him?

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A v common situation, but advice gratefully received.

DH & myself had D & V respectively over the weekend. DS (aged 1) didn't have D&V but was running a fever of 38.6c on Friday, and was miserable and off food Saturday, but seemed to pick up a bit on Sunday/Monday. (The doc checked him for ear infections and meningitis on the Friday evening and suggested it might be the onset of a D&V bug).

However, yesterday evening, after a clingy day, he projectile vomited dinner/lunch at teatime and had the runs.

He slept through til 5am, woke with stinky diarrheoa - so I changed him and gave him some milk and put him down again till 7.45am, as he seemed really tired.

I let him play with a finger of toast at 8am, but didn't force his usual porridge on him, and gave him a quiet hour of play and Balamory, and then at 10 he took about 5oz of milk from a bottle. 15mns later he was howling in agony - he had done a really liquid poo, obviously very acidic as his bum looked almost grazed. He was v distressed but perked up once I'd changed him.

I put Savlon on the almost broken skin and a disposable nappy. I daren't let him run round bare-bottomed as the poo is really very squirty looking. I've given him 3ml of infant ibuprofen to take the edge off any sore bottom pain and put him down in his cot (where he is chatting to himself at the mo).

Is there anything else I should be doing. Last time we had D&V the doc said to try to keep offering simple food throughout - anything particularly suitable for binding up poos/relieving a sore butt?

Thanks in advance.

I would suggest keep giving him water if he'll have it and just let him rest. If he wants food AFAIK you can give him banana, boiled potatoes and plain white bread, and plain (not wholemeal) pasta. Hope he feels better soon, my dss had the same thing earlier this year and it was so worrying but it hopefully won't last too long. The GP also prescribed a drink that you make up but I can't remember what it was called.

Cheers Saadia. Our doctor said you could buy a rehydration mix, something about Oralite or similar, OTC., but am hoping it won't come to that.

Poor wee things. At least we could dash to the loo!

I would stop the milk for a day - let him just have water or rehydration stuff. Sometimes the milk can upset their tummies even more.

Yes - agree - would avoid the milk (unless it's breast milk), if you can. Stick to water or the Dioralyte. The BRAT diet is recommended for people recovering from D&V:
Banana
Rice (rice cakes are good)
Apple
Toast.

And plenty of water. Good luck.

dioralyte is the name of the drink that you make up, it replaces lossed salts/fluids etc. It tastes rather nasty though so unsure if your DS would drink it.

not sure if this helps but a friend of mine suggested flat coke or lemonade, but it needs to be flat. Not that I suggest giving coke or lemonade to young DS really. but not sure if anyone else heard of it either.

Just sticking to bland food is best, dry bread/toast etc.
Hope he is better soon. (((hug)))

dioralyte is the rehydration powders - a lot of children dislike them though ( including mine!)

Stick with starchy plain food : rice, potatoes, toast and avoid dairy and fruit. He will gradually start eating again. For the bottom, try metanium cream , it is brilliant. Costs about £3 in boots.

he might have a rotavirus which makes them temporarily intolerant of milk (does he poo/ vomit soon after having milk/dairy?). Water with dioralyte in instead of milk would help, if this is the case.

Cheers all.
We all had something similar a couple of months ago, but then he was breastfed, so it was easy to just fed through it all. But packed in the boobs more or less as a result of that, as lost half a stone in about 3 days and boobs disappeared altogether! (FYI, discovered at that time that boobjuice the best thing to give 'em if suffering with D&V, as apparently v easy to digest, so even if they yak it up, chances are their gut has absorbed some nutrients.) Hard to know quite what to do this time round.

The mix of formula and cowjuice I'm giving him has (so far) stayed down, and he's had a bit of toast, and a bit of a mix of banana, stewed apple, milk & baby rice at lunch time, which I hope will bind the poo up a bit. He perked up a bit once he had some blood sugar, and has now gone down for another nap. Fingers crossed he is through the worst.

Re. bum, have tried Metanium on and off for the last year, and think it is one of the better creams available, but it does irritate their bums a bit if you over use it (I find). A friend recommends an American potion sold as "Butt Paste" - anyone know where this can be bought in the UK?

There's a special kind of formula for when they have diarrhoea. In Italy there is anyway, and it's called HN25. Maybe see in Boots whether it exists in the UK.