Hi, my daughter is 5 years old. She had a stomach ache last night and thought it was just something she had eaten that didn t sit well. After close to 2 hours on sitting on the toilet, I noticed her stool as wet, sandy and salt&pepper in color. She had eaten eggs, bacon and rice in the morning. Hot dog in the afternoon and a bite of McDonald McRib in the evening, not much of any appetite. Can please provide me any information as to what may cause her stool to be what I have just described? Thank you Allenn
Hi... 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.