Diarrhea in 6 Mo. Old

my son dillon had the same thing about 2 or 3 months ago..and that is what he pretty much had to do was run its course..and i believe it lasted around about a week or so..maybe a little longer...but just make sure your baby doesnt get dehydrated..i ended up taking dillon to the ER and they had to put an IV in to give him fluids becuase he was so dehydrated...hopefully things will get better soon..i know how you feel about the whole thing...

take him off dairy based products even his formula or breast milk. Give him a soy based formula and pedialyte. If you've started giving him veggies already stop using the most recent veggie go back to the ones that you fed him before he caught the virus and feed those exclusively. No juice.

Just feed him non dairy based foods and formula, Bananas, Rice cereal and Toast and any other veggies you have already been giving him.

This may be more than a bug. He could have an intolerance to gluten, dairy or something in a new food he's been trying and you're just prolonging it.

You can go as long as a month like this.

I JUST SPENT 1 WEEK OFF OF WORK W/ MY 5 YR OLD HAVING THE STOMACH BUG FOR 10 OR 11 DAYS...IT DID HAVE TO RUN ITS COURSE, WE TRIED EVERYTHING, AND NO MATTER WHAT FOOD WE ATE OR DIDNT EAT, NOTHING HELPED!! MY ONLY ADVICE IS TO KEEP HIM HYDRATED AND WAIT IT OUT :( SORRY!!

My daughter was about six or eight months old when we started having diarrhea every day to every third day. It lasted a year. We tried everything.

If your child isn't milk allergic, there is this powder called lactobacillius that you can get at the drug store. Talk to your pharmacist. It's supposed to help replace the bacteria in their stomach. I don't really remember, but I think you're suppposed to mix it with water and have them drink it. But the pharmacist can help you with that. I bought it at Walgreens.

Does he have diarrhea one or two days and then is constipated for one or two days? If yes, then the constipation is what's causing the diarrhea. Once you get the constipation solved, the diarrhea will stop. Try fiber cookies (if he has teeth), they're kind of like melba toast and he can slobber on them, but will still get some of the fiber out of them. That will help with the constipation, thereby solving the diarrhea.

Is he eating any solids yet? If yes, then that also may be the cause. We also found that my daughter's digestive system couldn't handle everything she was eating, and once we backed off the food a little (even though she thought she was starving to death) she was better.

Also, you need to make sure that he doesn't have rotovirus. It has the most horrible, awful, terrible stench you will ever smell in your life. If he has that, then ABSOLUTELY make sure that he's hydrated.

One last thing. The BRAT diet works, sort of. You have to use whole bananas and mash them up, and you have to use regular applesauce, like the Mussleman's in a can without any added sugar. The baby applesauce has too much juice in it. Also, mashed up potatoes with a little butter but no milk will work, but when they say rice, they mean actual rice, again not baby cereal. I had a hard time getting my little one to eat the rice until I added some cinnamon to it. It helped.

I almost lost my job because I was having to go home so much because the daycare wouldn't keep her due to the diarrhea. I talked to my pediatrician, he wrote a letter and told them that her problems were not contaigious and they shouldn't be sending her home anymore. It worked. At that point I just made sure they knew that I would be letting the pastor (it was a church daycare) know that they were refusing care and still expecting payment if this continued. And that seemed to solve my problems with them sending her home.

Unfortunately, in my daughter's young three year life, we've dealt with every pooping issue that there is, so if you have more questions, please feel free to contact me.

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Add 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch to the next 2 bottles, give it overnight this is what I used with my 4 kids. And to settle the stomach place a peppermint candy(the red and white rounds) in warm water in bottle shake till the red is gone take remainder from water this will settle upset stomach, gassy tummy, and indegestion. Good luck! T. K.

i have had the same problem with both of my sons. i always tried once the vomiting has stopped to give foods like bananas and cheese since these have been known to stop them up.

Hi L.,

Try giving him foods that you know will stop him up and also pedialyte works well when they have diarehea. I make sure that I have all kinds of things like that around my house b/c if one daughter isn't sick then it might be the other. So, make sure he gets plenty of fluids and count how many wet diapers a day he is having.

OK, check my history, I just went through this. My doc said the same thing, I got frustrated, went to another one that said 11 days (in my case) was to long. BRAT diet is ok.. applesauce is not the best but bananas did help in my case. The main thing the second doc said was that you have to replace the good bacteria in the stomach. If you go to a health food store they can tell you what the name of it is...I can't remember for sure. She also sent home a kit to do a culture on his stool to take the hospital and have tested to see what was going on. My sons quit after 3 bananas in a day and good bacteria so I didn't have to play in his poop--thank the Lord!!!!

Good Luck--"run it's course" gets a little lame after 2 weeks and they are still suffering!!!!!

Hi L.,
My 12 month old has the same thing (so have I and his Grandparents caught it too!) I just called my Peds office with the same question. She said that the diarrhea lasts about ten days, so you should be in the clear very soon. I've tried giving my son bananas and other binding foods, but the virus wins. This ones really going around. Lots of people I know know lots of people who have this stomach flu. This probably wasn't much help, but hang in there!

first I'd check withthe doctor, it may just have to run it's course. other than that, you could add flour to the milk and it will thicken up his stool, but be carefull you don't want it to reverse into constipation. This is an old southern remedy

Try feeding him rice, bananas, any bland food you can think of.
Keep all dairy products away and just stick with clear liquids. That is about the only thing you can do. Hope he feels better soon.

Try the BRAT diet for him.

B = Banana's
R = Rice
A = Applesauce
T = Toast

Sounds funny but it works, in all of us, make sure you are giving him pedilite, if he doesn't like that mix it with some sprite.

Hope that helps!

My question to you is he eating and drinking? if not then i would worry about dehydration with it lasting this long. Talk to your doctor. My young one had that and was like that for 3 weeks. and ended up in the hospital, not to scare you just to tell you what happened to me.

I am a mother of 9 month old twins. Mu daughter also got a touch of the flu bug. I gave her some babana baby food. Bananas usually are a binding food. It seems to have cleared up after two days. Good luck!!!