My 7 year old granddaughter has been bothered by stomach pains and severe constipation for several years. This week she isn t very hungry at mealtime and last night had very stinky and foamy diarrhea. She s had a colonoscopy and ultra sounds. She takes Miralax daily.
Hi... Thank you for consulting in Chat Doctor. It seems your kid is having viral diarrhea. Once it starts it will take 5-7 days to completely get better. Unless the kids having low urine output or very dull or excessively sleepy or blood in motion or green bilious vomiting...you need not worry. There is no need to use antibiotics unless there is blood in the motion. Antibiotics might worsen if unnecessarily used causing antibiotic associated diarrhea. I suggest you use zinc supplements (Z&D Chat Doctor.