My 14 month old son has rotavirus. EVERYTHING he eats goes right through him. On Thursday we offered no food, he did pretty good with it, but now its saturday and he is BEGGING for food. Is there anything I can feed him that wont run right through his little body. I did give him a few pieces of cheese crumbles and he didnt have a diarrhia after that. I have given him crackers, toast, cheerios and sweet potato puffs and about 30-45 minutes later we have diarrhia diapers. Its so hard to have your child beg for food but on the otherhand I know its better for him not to eat. He is drinking lots of pedialyte mixed with a bit of water, but it just isnt enough.
Just give him a nibble at a time, or a liquid sip at a time if he eats a few mouth fulls it will go right through him.Every 15min. or so let him have a nibble then increase it as his body get's used to keeping it down.
I had bad diarreha once and couldn't keep anything down either and I had to work my way up to eating and drinking a normal amout.
Don't give him anything ice cold either.
We recently survived a bout of rotavirus at our house. It was just horrible. It seemed like he had it forever! Our pediatrician told us he should eat - we fed him applesauce, bananas, toast, and yogurt although I don't know that it made anything any better. Pedialyte is good to give to him - avoiding dehydration is important. We gave him Gatorade mixed with Pedialyte b/c he didn't really care for Pedialyte. He had about 50 baths in a week - we were concerned about diaper rash. I know they now are coming out with a vaccine...I wish it had been available for us earlier! Good luck!!
We survived one recently.It lasted abt 2 weeks. Dr said we have to keep feeding her and that thing has to pass in the diarrhea for full recovery.It was hard to watch my baby go thru it.Just keep feeding him normal food even though it might cause diarrhea. Just limit the portions but keep giving him. Eventually the virus will get out of the system and he will go back to normal. Hugs to you
When my son had rotavirus, I was told to feed him, just not too much. He won't get better until he gets it out of his body, and it comes out through the diarrhia. The more icky diapers he has... the faster he will get the virus out of his body. It takes about 10 days-2 weeks. It's not going to stop for a while, but his eating will get back to normal. Just dont over-feed him... my son got sick of pedialyte so we mixed it with rice cereal (he was 8 months old) and I gave him too much... and he threw up all over me. The worst part was that it was at daycare, it was in my building at work and I had gone down there on my lunch, and had to go back to work with no change of clothes. Start out slow and slowly increase so it is not too hard on his stomach and he can keep it down... and as it comes back out, he is getting closer to getting better. I bought a big thing of vaseline and put a thick coat on his butt between every diaper to protect it, and he was fine. The only way rotavirus will spread is if you don't wash hands after changing diapers or from the vomit. It is not airborn at all (he was in the ER Christmas Eve... we were still able to go to our family christmas as long as we were careful about washing hands). Make sure he gets his liquids, but he needs to eat too. The BRAT diet is usually recommended... Bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast. Those are all easy foods on the stomach and easy to digest... but they will go through him fast too. Good luck! I know how rough it is having a child so sick... and this has to be one of the worst things for a young child! I don't know if your son has had a fever... mine had a 106 fever... I think that was the scariest day of my life. But he is fine, and got back to normal in about 4-5 days (other than the diapers of course. )
BRAT diet. Bannanas, rice, applesauce and toast. Keep him hydrated with pedialyte sp? and other I also did half water and apple juice. You have to make sure he isn't getting dehydrated and having wet diapers. If he isn't keeping fluids down give him only an ounces or less every 10 minutes or so.
Also, go to the pharmacist and ask for lactrobacilus spelling?. It is in crystal form and you can add it to his juice, it helps get the good bacteria back into his system.
Good Luck. That virus is the pits.
