My 5 week old daughter has bad diarreah and Im wondering if its ok to give her pedialyte?
2007-09-24 05:18:10 · 6 answers · asked by Miss Lady 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Infants have naturally runny and frequent bowel movements. This is normal and will continue until your baby begins to eat solid foods. A baby's diet consists of basically a liquid diet in the form of breast milk and/or formula so it will follow that poop will seem like the consistency of what would be considered diarrhea in an older child or adult. Pedialyte is not necessary nor recommended for babies as young as yours. The ingredients in it are not needed for a baby who is nursing or bottle feeding normally. Feed her breast milk or formula on demand and she will be just fine. Contact your baby's doctor's office for further questions to be sure. ADDED: A baby who is nursing and/or bottle feeding normally will not get dehydrated regardless of how often he/she poops. Many babies poop after every feeding and it is perfectly normal. Please read the label on Pedialyte. This is quoted from the directions "For infants under 1 year of age, consult your doctor" and from the Warnings "Use under the supervision of a doctor". Please do not give your 5 week old daughter Pedialyte unless her doctor says to do so.
2007-09-24 05:29:20 · answer #1 · answered by sevenofus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If your daugher really does have diarreah, the #1 most important thing is to keep her from becoming dehydrated.
Since she's already on an all liquid diet, there is no need for pedialyte. You only need to keep up the feedings. The only reason you would consider pedialyte for a bottle feed baby is if she is vomiting and can not keep milk down. Then you'd might want to see if she could keep something like pedialyte down to stay hydrated.
If the diarreah just started, this isn't a medical emergency that you have to rush her to the ER this minute. The only thing they could realistically do for her is hook her up to IVs to get her rehydrated if she is getting dehydrated.
The easiest indicator of if she is staying hydrated is if she is producing at least six wet diapers per day.
But since she is so young and you think she has diarreah, at a very minimum you MUST contact her PED ASAP. Illness of any sort in a child this young is NOT good, and so you need the advice of a real doctor and not an answer group. Try to get a rectal temperature for your daughter and call the doctor's office with the information (daugheter's name, age, rectal temp, that you believe she has diarreah, and for how long she's had it, along with any other symptoms). Most likely, since you think she is sick and she is so young, the doctor will probably want you to bring her in for an evaluation.
2007-09-24 06:00:36 · answer #2 · answered by HooKooDooKu 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A baby that young should not have diarreah, you should call his doctor now, the 1st poster is right, babies that young can dehydrate fast. Do not self medicvate your child and YA is not the place to look for an answer, please please contact his ped, we are not doctors, it could be rotavirus and of course your baby hasn't had that vaccine yet, who knows, better safe than sorry. Many infants under 6 months die each year because of this.
2007-09-24 05:46:19 · answer #3 · answered by Baby Ruth habla español 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe its the formula,or a flu bug. Is it very waterey or just soft stool. Because my son had the same his doctor said its pretty normal untill they eat table food (solids) . Send her to her doctor just to get her checked if your really concerned. God bless
2007-09-24 05:39:04 · answer #4 · answered by Happy, :) & Sad :( 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yes...i did the same even with my 5 month old baby.
2007-09-24 05:22:52 · answer #5 · answered by Helen 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
call the doctor NOW, this is one of the most common reasons for babies dying.... dehydration!
2007-09-24 05:21:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋