20 month old and Diarrhea

Get her checked for celiac as well as the normal stool sample testing to make sure she doesn't have any bad buggaboos.

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Sounds like the antibiotics could be a culprit. Antibiotics fuel fungal infections. I agree with Quincy about the testing. As well, maybe she is lactose intolerant? Maybe has an unknown food allergy. Maybe take all grains/sugar out of her diet for now, give only veggies, meats and fruits. If she has a fungal infection, giving her grains and foods with processed/refined sugar will only add to the problem. I have read that food allergy, most often milk and eggs milk leads to chronic ear infections, and eventually tubes in ears. In one 2001 study, 22 out of 25 children who followed an elimination diet got significantly better. Worth a shot for your baby, I'd say.

We went to the doctor today.  It wasn't our normal doctor, the doctor who had Saturday sick kids clinic.  I was told this is a sick clinic diarrhea should have been scheduled during the week.  Yeah and I work during the week, I only get 10 sick days per school year and when they are gone I loose pay. 

She could simply (and hopefully) just have lactose intolerance, make sure she gets tested for that...although IBD is hereditary that doesn't mean for sure she has it too, but it's very likely she's suffering with lactose issues.


Let us know :)

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My bum is broken....there's a big crack down the middle of it!  LOL  :)

There are a lot of reasons she could have it, so don't fret yet. I know I do every time my kids have a loose stool, so easier said than done. When my daughter was about that age she had diarrhea for a month. She also got a UTI which I never would have seen if she hadn't been using a potty and had blood (long story). They had to do an x-ray and all this stuff b/c babies don't get uti and it was this horrible ordeal (but if you have diarrhea squashed in there for a month, give me a break!). In the end it did go away. And it probably is the antibiotics. Try Dr. SMith's diaper ointment...Works wonders!!! They gave me some prescription thing that I had to go to some special place for, but nothing worked until I found Dr. Smiths. Within a day her diaper rash was gone.
It could be everything everyone has suggested. And it's good that she's 10 months b/c she won't need to be on the formual much longer. I would guess that's the problem if it started after you stopped nursing her.
I hope she gets better. I know that's no fun, and even more stressful when you know UC exists and is heriditary. I really wouldn't think it's IBD though.

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dx late April 2005 with UC after birth of my son with pancolitis (though my first doc never told me that!)

If her bottom is still raw, I've always found that any diaper cream slides off the raw skin and sticks to the diaper and doesn't really help. The thing that has worked the best and heals the rawness is take liquid Maalox and dab in on the raw skin. Then take a hair dryer and on cool dry the Maalox. This creates a paint-like barrior and you can then put on any diaper cream on-top. This takes a little time, but if you can get your daughter to lay still for a few minutes in a day or two the rawness should start to heal. Good luck. I hope you get some answers.

And yes, they do have pediatric GI doctors. My daughter had to see one when she was six weeks old (not Colitis related).

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Diagnosed UC - 1993
31 year old female

Current Meds:

Colazal (3 pills two to three times a day)
Flax oil and fish oil capsules occasionally

I just was browsing and noticed one of your postings. My 19 month old son has been going through lots of testing here lately b/c of chronic diarrhea and a bloated stomach. One of the things they tested him for was Cystic Fibrosis. The two symptoms he as fall in that catergory, but he does not have the "failure to thrive" part. But, what I noticed you wrote something about mucous in her bm...that is another symptom for CF. I would highly recommend you ask your dr to refer you to a pediatric GI Dr. and ask for a sweat test to be done to rule it out.