12mo's sweat smells of urine!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[moongloe]

he has been very constipated for a few weeks. he's mostly bf, but does eat a bit of jarred food. he doesn't really care for food. i'm not giving him the cereals, just fruits, squash, cucumbers, avocado, & melon. i will say that he prefers banana and melons. i'm sure the bananas are contributing. but even if i cut them out he goes days without pooping, then passes what look like lumps of clay. it hurts him to poop, & he shakes a little all over.
i began giving him small sips of water through the day, but it hasn't helped. then tonight he was falling asleep, and i noticed his sweat smelled of urine. i googled it, and saw things like "dehydration" and "kidney disease".
i'm hoping others who've experienced this can help me. of course this would be a weekend, making a trip to the doc impossible.
thanks in advance.

[Carma]

Does he have other signs of dehydration? Can you call a weekend doc for a telephone consult first? Think I would want to talk to/see a doc if it is a sudden symptom esp. if he also has other symptoms.

In general I always just stopped the solids when my kids got constipation and just BF. They also got very constipated when we started solids. Slowly it got better. My 3yo is still sometimes constipated, it got a bit worse when we stopped BF.

Carma