hi doctor, good morning my 8 month old baby green watery diarrhea since 2 weeks. initially it was with high grade fever & i took her to doctor. he examined & said pharyngitis & given cephalosporin. 5 days of course completed but still diarrhea persisting. she refuse to take any food except breast milk. what should i do
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 (LIKE CEPHALOSPORINS) 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.