Hi, may I answer your health queries right now ? Please type your query here...my son is 23 months old , is down with lose motion from 8 days ,no blood had fever first 2 days now no fever,motions 3-4 a day,weighs 12 kg,having all water food everything possible, doc gave some antipasmodic, antifaculent, asked to wait,how long should i be patience....
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.