My son just turned 2 in March. It seems like he has had the stomach bug 3 times since January and it has been liquid poopy diapers for about 5 days average. No fevers ever with this...sometimes vomiting. This last round has been pretty good - with only 1 bad diaper a day....but when i called the doctor they said that it's either a bug that he's just not getting rid of - or what they call Toddler Diarrhea. Has anyone else experienced this with their child?. He drinks about two cups of juice a day - which are both heavily diluted with water..and never gets straight juice. If it is a flu bug...is it common for him to have it so much? and if it's toddler diarrhea - how long does it last? The nurse did say that most kids will outgrow this by 3 yrs old....but that is a long time.
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Is he cutting his 2yr molars? Both of my kids had awful diapers whenever they were teething, especially when they were cutting molars. Keep a food journal of everything he eats and drinks during these days and see if that helps you figure out if it is anything related to his diet.
Try giving him some yogurt. That always seems to help my family when we get a stomach bug.
I had never heard of Toddler Diarrhea so I looked it up online. You said you barely give him juice but maybe the other things will help. The yogurt suggestion sounds like a good idea.
This is what came as something you can do:
Limit or stop giving your child fruit juice, especially juices that are high in fructose or sorbital, like apple juice and pear juice. White grape juice can be a better option.
Increase the amount of fat in his diet (talk to your Pediatrician about this though, so you don't end up giving your child too many high fat foods, which may not be healthy).
Increase the amount of fiber in his diet (this recommendation can be confusing, since a high fiber diet is supposed to help kids who are constipated, but fiber seems to help many different kinds of gastrointestinal disorders).
In general, you might do all of the things that doctor's warn might cause constipation. For example, children who consume a lot of whole cow's milk and other dairy products, or eat bananas or cooked carrots, often become constipated. So if you increase the amounts of these foods in a child with diarrhea, it might help their stools become more firm. Limiting juice also makes sense when you consider that Pediatricians often tell parents to give their children more apple juice when they are constipated.
