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Child Has Loose Motion. What Can It Be?

My baby is 4 months and a week now.. he started having loose poop day before yesterday evening. 2 or 3 heavy ones and a few drops or more in almost all the nappies.. similar thing happened once last moth and it stopped in a day.. i can not see anything else wrong with the baby though.. what can it be.. i am a mother who worries too much and get depressed for the slightest.. .. then i can not concentrate on anything else which is very bad on my other kid who is 10.did not want to ask my friends as if they give wrong info i would go crazy.. pls help..
Fri, 16 Aug 2013
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Hello,
Thank you for the query.
I can understand your concern about your child and every mother does that.
I need to tell you that for every baby hygiene is very important as every small thing can cause infection for babies.This must be simple infection due to bacteria and may be just treated with antidiarrheals. But keep in mind that if there is much fluid loss your baby may need more electroytes and fluids as they may go into dehydration.So, just keep that in mind and make sure that regular washing of your baby hands after touching something and taking care about feed it is enough to save your baby from most of the infections. Give your baby breast feeding until your baby is 6months old.Thank you.
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Child Has Loose Motion. What Can It Be?

Hello, Thank you for the query. I can understand your concern about your child and every mother does that. I need to tell you that for every baby hygiene is very important as every small thing can cause infection for babies.This must be simple infection due to bacteria and may be just treated with antidiarrheals. But keep in mind that if there is much fluid loss your baby may need more electroytes and fluids as they may go into dehydration.So, just keep that in mind and make sure that regular washing of your baby hands after touching something and taking care about feed it is enough to save your baby from most of the infections. Give your baby breast feeding until your baby is 6months old.Thank you.