Toddler, chronic diarrhea, no weight loss....????

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When my son was a toddler he had constant diahreah, stomache cramps and gas pains...A friend of mine phoned her pediatrician and he said to take him off all apple related drinks and foods. Within 2 days he was having normal bowel movements, he is now 24 years old and if he has apple juice he will have the same reaction he did as a toddler. He is now having the same problems with his son.

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My son is 22 months old. I only remember changing a very few formed stools. His stools are usually loose with lots of mucus and a strange odor. It is almost like rotting sugar or other carbohydrates. He has been tested for giardia, c.diff, crytposporidosis, reducing substances (a sign of malabsorption syndromes), and most recently, Cystic Fibrosis and Celiac Disease. All of these tests came back normal or negative for that disease, disorder, syndrome, etc. Eliminating wheat didn't seem to help. I started eliminating milk from his diet two days ago and his stools went from loose to liquid. He often wakes up at night crying with bowel sounds so loud I can hear them without a stethoscope. He often wakes with severe gas, belching, etc. He had pretty bad reflux until he was about 7 months old. He was on Prevacid and Reglan. Our pediatrician told us the next step was to see the GI specialist. Hmmm... I am feeling that we will get more of the same- they won't know any more than I do about what is going on. There is a strong family history of IBS and I am worried that is the "diagnosis" he will end up with and there will be nothing I can do to help.

heathnjoy · Newbie Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 2

My 2 1/2 year old son also started having unformed stool for about a year now. The Dr. did some blood test for celiacs and also a stool culture. They tried to eliminate dairy for a week or so but no difference. My son also has constant ear infections and we noticed that when he was on the antibiotic his stools would actually get normal. I thought this may be something that would lead the Dr. to solve the mistery but instead it's something that doesn't make sense to them. The Gastroenterologist thinks perhaps he could have a bacteria overgrowth in his small intestine so he's having my son do a daily dose of probiotics. So far there really hasn't been much of a change.

3 boys mama · Newbie Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 1

My 23 month old son has been having diarrhea for about 6-8 months now. He often acts like his tummy cramps right before he has a bowel movement. We have already done several stool cultures and nothing is showing up. My husband has severe food allergies and I tried eliminating certain foods as well as milk to see if things got better, with no success. We saw a ped. GI doc two days ago who is currently doing some blood tests for celiac ect... we are doing some more extensive stool testing also. If all of this comes back negative we are back to square one, I dont want anything to be wrong with my child but at the same time it would be a relief to get a diagnosis. He has had the diarrhea so bad at one point that he went up to 15 times a day and got a huge sore along with a rash on his bottom, it was heart breaking. I will try to update if 2 weeks when we go back for results of the testing.

heathnjoy · Newbie Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 2

As I mentioned in my last posting no doctors seemed to be able to figure out why for the last 10 months my son was only having soft stools. The soft stools seemed to become formed when he was on anti-biotics. The GI Dr. had him do Pro-biotics and after 6 weeks I still wasn't seeing much change. I then did some more searching on my own and saw some study regarding IBS with Toddlers and using white grape juice. I've since switched him to only drink white grape juice instead of any other juice and after a 1wk and a half his stools are starting to be normal. It seems to me that it must be helping. I haven't changed anything else diet wise. I had found some article that explains how other juices (apple, pear) have sorbital that is hard to digest and white grape juice is really easy to digest. I hope it will work for some of you too.

Toddler, chronic diarrhea, no weight loss....????

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