And, everything looks good.
Keep using flax seed, add more fiber and fats to his diet. Call with an update in a couple months. Slowly, go back to your normal family diet.
So, apparently, he will just have diarrhea for life. It is his normal. FRUSTRATED!
I don't understand. How can diarrhea forever be normal? How can you potty train him like this?
ReplyDeleteDid your doctor say anything about malabsorption? Is that why he is having pooping issues?
ReplyDeleteI also read about a parasite - entamoeba hystolitica- did they test for that?
ReplyDeleteI read and basically I read that you have done all the same stuff as other moms with the same problems. They all just said it was really frustrating!
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Increase fat in the diet
Decrease fluid in the diet
Avoid fructose and sorbitol- decrease fruit juices
Increase dietary fiber
Normal diet for age
Reassurance- this is difficult because parents have been to many physicians and are convinced that their child has a serious illness. It is important after making your recommendations to follow-up soon to reassure again and watch weight and height gains.
There is no role for medications.
The parents should be told that there is no serious sequelea and this is not a precursor to inflammatory bowel disease, chronic diarrhea as adults, or cancer
Most children are better by 4 years of age, and are better by the time they become potty trained.
The APA has recently (Dec 2010) investigated the use of probiotics and prebiotics in the treatment of gastrointestinal ailments in children. They preliminary, good data shows that taking probiotics can limit the duration of infectious diarrhea in children by up to 40 hours, and reduce the occurrences of diarrhea in children exposed to enteric viral infection (rota) and started on antibiotics. In healthy children, the use of probiotics and prebiotics have been found to be completely safe thus making their use worth a try.
I DO NOT understand how diarrhea forever is normal either. Everyone's "advice" stops when I say, "How is he suppose to potty train?"
ReplyDeleteDoc didn't say anything about malabsorption. Obviously, given the fact he is gaining weight, he is absorbing something or he would be failure to thrive, which he is not.
Yes, the poop test was suppose to test for parasites. It came back normal.
How do I increase fat? I think he gets enough fat with the goats milk and the fact that we are not vegetarians.
Decrease fluid? Are you (not you, the person with that suggestion) crazy? It is going to be pushing 100 here all week!
We don't do fruit juice very often. Mostly in smoothies. He loves fruit. Cutting fruit is going to be brutal, really hoping we don't get to that.
Increasing dietary fiber is one that keeps being mentioned. Really need to read more about how to do that. Flax seed really helps his stools.
He has a "normal diet for his age."
Reassurance, from the health care community (specifically the gastro doc), that we are doing the right thing would be nice. Really appreciate our church family. They (esp. Laura and Marcy) have been wonderful.
The extent of "medication" is acidophilus. Which is not medicine.
Good to know.
Really, better by 4? That is 5 months from now.
Doing it.
Diarrhea is not normal and robs a body of nutrients. I would get a second opinion for sure. Usually diarrhea is present when the body is trying to purge something. Try also a banana and lots of liquids to rehydrate. Keeping this in prayer and sending a hug!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
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