Hello, my son is a year old. we just went on a weekend vacation (9 hr car ride) last night he started having diarreah. This morning we gave him some red gatorade then quite a few hours later he pooped a liquidy-red (bright red) and it smelled horrible. PLEASE help me.. I dont know if that gatorade did this or not
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.