On going tummy pain and diarrhoea

[bizzi]

From November, maybe earlier dd2, 7yrs has had terrible tummy pains and pale coloured diarrhoea almost daily. Has a hospital appt soon but I'm worrying.
What could be so persistant?
Thankyou!

Sorry - I dont know - so I'm bumping it up!

I would have thought that it is more related to an intolerance that anything else.

thankyou for answering.
I've wondered about food allergy too...

Where is the tummy pain? Any particular area? Wouldn't happen to be around the belly button would it? x

The pain she feels is very much central and just above the belly button.
Why?

Because my daughter, who is 9yrs old, suffers with Irritable Bowel Syndrome - she started it following a particularly bad dose of sickness/diarrhoea. Ever since then (Oct 07) she suffers with pain around her belly button area and dreadful diarrhoea. In the end we were referred to a consultant who put her through various tests and she is now on medication which she's been on since Dec 07 - she has a tablet called colofac which she takes half hour before a meal. This calms her stomach down ready for food and she is able to eat with no pain and does normal number twos. Without this tablet she gets pain in her stomach and very light coloured stools which are sloppy/diarrhoea. The pain in the stomach, I am told, is the muscles in the gut going into a spasm when it is expecting food, which then causes the stools to turn into diarrhoea. Sorry...bit graphic but you did ask!

We also went down the food intolerant route - it is worth getting your daughter tested for Coeliac Disease(blood test) and try taking her off dairy which does tend to upset a stomach quite easily. But remember if you do go down the CD test route DON'T take her off wheat/gluten prior to the test - the results of which take quite a while to come back.

Thankyou WWhisp, detailed is just what I needed!!
IBS is something I have contemplated and worried about, because I feel it's the answer the medics give when they've run out of any other answer! I'm really glad to hear that your daughter is settled now she's taking colofac, seems a shame to have to rely on a drug but I realise we could be there at some point. Anything to help her with these pains at the moment.
She saw the consultant yesterday who was v thorough and reasuring. She prescribed an antibiotic to treat gardia,(sp?)- and infection that can be picked up abroad, but thinks the most likely cause is constipation. (I'm doubtful, but who am I to q?) So she's to have 2 wks of increased fluid consumption and if no improvement a daily sachet of movicol. We're back in 6 weeks. All fingers are crossed.

bizzi - is your daughter constipated? I thought in your OP you mentioned she had diarrhoea?!

Pain around the belly button I was told was more a problem with the gut rather than the bowels.

xx