My baby 9 months has gastritis this is day 6... we have been to the doctor twice and casualty once and sent home without treatment. Next step is to take a stool sample and get tested. But my main question is do we starve her? she is taking a little bit of milk and she managed to keep down some baby cereal this morning and a tiny bit of banana at tea time. I am getting conflicting opionions about offering her food but she has gone 6 days without a meal and getting the diralyte into her is very difficult but we are sticking to it.
Hi.... I understand your concern. By what you say I feel that your child is having acute watery diarrhea or gastroenteritis. There is no need to do stool testing for this duration of this illness (because usually gastroenteritis lasts for a week to 10 days) and even if you want to do a stool test there is no need to do the stool test on starving stool sample. 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. Regards -