Not sure what, if anything, is going on with ds
My younger son is going to be 3 in May. He's always been small, born at the 10th percentile and has never gotten above it, though he does dip way below it from time to time. His bowel movements have always gone through phases where they are "funny". Usually a couple of days a week, sometimes more or less often, he'll have a day where he has as many as 6-10 bowel movements in a day. They are runny, and mucusy, though scant. Then, for a day or two, he'll have 1 or 2 seemingly "normal" (formed or mostly formed), bowel movements in a day. This has been pretty much his whole life (since he's been eating solids, anyway).
What has finally made me look askance at this trend in his bowel habits (and maybe I should've long ago, but he's seemed otherwise very healthy), is that he has recently been displaying an extreme susceptibility to GI infections/viruses. He was sick with vomiting and diarrhea for more than 10 days, a little over a month ago, and is now on day 2 of another tummy bug. Everyone else I know of who got sick with it last time (including my older ds, my husband, and me), was more or less normal after 48-72 hours of it).
Could there be some underlying chronic condition causing both his chronic symptoms, and his susceptibility to stomach bugs? Really, if he weren't still nursing, he'd have been hospitalized last time, and would be heading that way this time, too. Anyone else have a child with similar problems? I'm considering requesting his ped do allergy testing, including maybe celiac, but I don't want to jump the gun and put him through a bunch of unnecessary procedures, either. Poor sick baby.
My younger son is going to be 3 in May. He's always been small, born at the 10th percentile and has never gotten above it, though he does dip way below it from time to time. His bowel movements have always gone through phases where they are "funny". Usually a couple of days a week, sometimes more or less often, he'll have a day where he has as many as 6-10 bowel movements in a day. They are runny, and mucusy, though scant. Then, for a day or two, he'll have 1 or 2 seemingly "normal" (formed or mostly formed), bowel movements in a day. This has been pretty much his whole life (since he's been eating solids, anyway).
What has finally made me look askance at this trend in his bowel habits (and maybe I should've long ago, but he's seemed otherwise very healthy), is that he has recently been displaying an extreme susceptibility to GI infections/viruses. He was sick with vomiting and diarrhea for more than 10 days, a little over a month ago, and is now on day 2 of another tummy bug. Everyone else I know of who got sick with it last time (including my older ds, my husband, and me), was more or less normal after 48-72 hours of it).
Could there be some underlying chronic condition causing both his chronic symptoms, and his susceptibility to stomach bugs? Really, if he weren't still nursing, he'd have been hospitalized last time, and would be heading that way this time, too. Anyone else have a child with similar problems? I'm considering requesting his ped do allergy testing, including maybe celiac, but I don't want to jump the gun and put him through a bunch of unnecessary procedures, either. Poor sick baby.
