So when my ds was three weeks old, his older sister (almost 3 at the time) had one day of mild diarrhea. I attributed it to the massive quantities of tomatoes she ate out of the garden the night before, but that night she spiked a fever. The next day she was fine. Turns out her little friend had had an episode of diarrhea right after we had been over at his house two days earlier, so maybe tomatoes, maybe some short-lived illness.
Two days after dd was sick, ds started having tons of mucus in his poop and it was green at times. Although the green stuff went away after having had it off and on for a week or so, the mucus never went away. The pediatrician was really surprised because he's growing well and is a very happy and content baby -- no fussing or gas or anything. The only other symptom was lots of sort of wet burps. She suggested trying 7-10 days without dairy, but said if it wasn't that, not to worry about it, it's obviously a mild allergy.
I'm on day 8 now (he'll be 12 weeks old on Saturday), and while there is lots less mucus, the poop is thicker and more like what I remember after the introduction of some solids. His spitting up seems to have improved some, though honestly it was improving anyway, so it's hard to tell... The strange thing is that the first couple of days on the diet he had more really watery poop and had gas pain for the first time in his life. Both have improved, though. Then a few days ago, he got some patches of dry skin on his elbows, thighs, stomach and lower back -- they are not at all red, and you can't really see them well unless you look very closely, just feel them. I've stopped eggs as of a few days ago because I had upped my egg consumption to make up for the lack of dairy in the beginning... It seems to me that maybe it could be dairy or eggs or both. Or maybe it could be that he really did have a diarrhea illness and now his gut flora is out of whack.
Another confession -- we're vegetarians and we eat a lot of nuts (not peanuts, but almonds, walnuts, cashews, pine nuts, pistachios) and wheat. Should I seriously be looking at leaving out all top allergens to test it out? His symptoms, besides the mucus, are so mild, I don't know if I would even be able to tell all the real allergies!
Sorry for the novel!
Thanks,
Emily
Two days after dd was sick, ds started having tons of mucus in his poop and it was green at times. Although the green stuff went away after having had it off and on for a week or so, the mucus never went away. The pediatrician was really surprised because he's growing well and is a very happy and content baby -- no fussing or gas or anything. The only other symptom was lots of sort of wet burps. She suggested trying 7-10 days without dairy, but said if it wasn't that, not to worry about it, it's obviously a mild allergy.
I'm on day 8 now (he'll be 12 weeks old on Saturday), and while there is lots less mucus, the poop is thicker and more like what I remember after the introduction of some solids. His spitting up seems to have improved some, though honestly it was improving anyway, so it's hard to tell... The strange thing is that the first couple of days on the diet he had more really watery poop and had gas pain for the first time in his life. Both have improved, though. Then a few days ago, he got some patches of dry skin on his elbows, thighs, stomach and lower back -- they are not at all red, and you can't really see them well unless you look very closely, just feel them. I've stopped eggs as of a few days ago because I had upped my egg consumption to make up for the lack of dairy in the beginning... It seems to me that maybe it could be dairy or eggs or both. Or maybe it could be that he really did have a diarrhea illness and now his gut flora is out of whack.
Another confession -- we're vegetarians and we eat a lot of nuts (not peanuts, but almonds, walnuts, cashews, pine nuts, pistachios) and wheat. Should I seriously be looking at leaving out all top allergens to test it out? His symptoms, besides the mucus, are so mild, I don't know if I would even be able to tell all the real allergies!
Sorry for the novel!
Thanks,
Emily
