My daughter is old enough to go to our church's nursery and most of the time I love it. However, every once in a while she picks up a bug. And by once in a while I mean at least once a month. There must be a kid in there like Typhoid Mary that carries loads of germs just waiting for unsuspecting toddlers.
This last one was only about a days worth of misery, thank goodness. Just picture a festival of poop and nausea.
Your welcome.
And I am usually the lucky one to pick it up after she does. So yesterday we weren't thinking much about food. Just the minimal food to keep our stomachs from doing the Mambo.
At our house when we have the 'creepin' crud', as my Mom calls it, we stick to simple foods. Soups. Lots of yummy soups. Plus, what other dietitians call the B.R.A.T. diet. That stands for bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast. I don't ever keep us on that for very long since it's not a totally balanced diet in the sense that it's missing lots of nutrients. I've read lots of stuff about how using that diet temporarily gives intestinal mucosa a chance to heal. There are lots of other heath issues out there where it would NOT be a good idea, but it works for us. And the 24 hour creepin' crud.
Besides, nobody likes poop festivals.
We had it...but, I kept mine home...even though he wasn't actively sick...I was worried about him being a vector...and sharing. :) I don't stick to the brat diet for very long. Mostly because my kids won't touch applesauce. LOL! We do yogurt...the serious, no-messin'-around-chocked-full-of-cultures-and-fat yogurt. But, I'm sure you can come up with something better for us? :)
ReplyDeleteI actually like stuff with good probiotics in them. I just attended a lecture by an RD who gave fantastic info about them. You have to be careful about the labels. Sometimes the company says they have say 20,000 active cultures but that measurement may be at production and not what it contains after a certain amount of shelf life. The company Yakult seems to have good stuff with decent amounts of cultures after some shelf life.
ReplyDeleteSo, basically sounds like you are on a good track. When a kiddo has diarrhea it's very helpful to replenish the 'good bacteria' in the gut.
My mom used to feed us the BRAT diet when we had the stomach bug. Now I know how smart she is!
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