very loose poos - what will stop them?

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how to I stop loose poos, what are the best foods top give?

Do you need to look at the problem from another angle? Are you giving food/juice that is making your DD/DS loose? I know that if my DS has weetabix and undiluted orange juice for brekkie that there is going to be a messy poo a short time later!

how old is the child

could their be an underlying issue eg a food intolerance, maybe wheat or dairy etc?

generally dried fruit and makes it worse and bananas can help firm things up

thanks, dd does has a guten intolerance, but i didnt manetion that as it complicates things. I know when it is a wheat problem from experience. I think she just is very loose anyway. Didn 't know dried fruit was bad, she has this on cereal every day. I may change to bananas.

my dd has chronic toddler diarrhoea which we thankfully seem to have under control at the moment (reaches to touch wood....) We have to avoid all fruit juices, (esp apple juice) any processed fruit type products, smoothies etc, too much fruit in general incl dried fruit and anything with tomatoes in it (come to think of it also a fruit!)

HTH

Agree with Elizabethsmum, DD also has toddler diarrhoea and it is fruit and weetabix that seems to really set it off. We have done a food diary and my DD doesn't have a food allergy. We do much better now that I limit dried fruit to occasionally and make sure that she gets most of her fruit and veg portions from veg. We have to avoid juice and apples completely, so she has milk or water to drink. The best advice someone on here gave me was to try and give her something "binding" when she has something more likely to give her runny poos, so if she really really wants some apple, then I would give it with some sliced banana and a glass of milk to balance out the effects. Bananas, milk and eggs are binding foods.