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Awe I hope it gets better soon.

The only experience I have had is DD had a stomach bug for almost 2 weeks, only issue was loose stool. After talking with her Dr we started her on probiotics and it finally cleared up.

I'm pretty sure my lo is lactose intolerant and she also was having issues with milk since she was 1 (she's 2.5 now). Even if your lo developed it later I don't feel like it would come on so strong so fast. It kind of sounds like a stomach bug to me. My lo had something like that as an infant with no other symptoms. For sure I'd give him some probiotics which helps my lo when she has diarrhea!

Not sure if you've followed along at all with DS's battle over the past year, but somewhat similar circumstances, and ended up being lactose intolerance and GERD. Changed his diet about 2 months ago now, and he's been doing fantastic. I'd check with your pediatrician, but LI is what I'm thinking. And yes, it came out of nowhere for us and will get worse as they get older.

@lovehoneybee: It isn't that bad! I had to learn the difference, but lactose intolerance isn't the same as a dairy allergy. Most people who are LI are fine with butter and many are even fine with yogurt. We literally just switched to Lactaid milk, Cabot cheese, and soy yogurt, and try to keep the dry milk in processed food (like his favorite cereal bars from Kashi) to a minimum and he's been doing great. Oh, we did also switch him from goldfish to pretzels. Only the really lactose intolerant need to cut out all dairy in a very strict manner.

@lovehoneybee: If it keeps coming, I'm sure they'll check for parasites, too. I'm pretty sure I've taken more than 50 stool samples in the past year and I'm not 100% sure what he had didn't start out as a parasit that just triggered the LI, since his first blood sample did have a high white blood cell count. It's just hard to find them sometimes. But after an MRI, and endoscopy and literally a year of testing, I am so relieved that it's most likely just a simple case of GERD and LI. While DS's vomit was at night, he had that same thing where his food wasn't digested and it was like 8 hours after he ate. I was also relieved that changing his diet around hasn't been too bad, especially since he is literally the pickiest child ever (most likely because he was always feeling bad after eating). Hopefully E feels better soon!

@kiddosc: I feel like we talked about this at some point before, because we did Alina too (twice actually). Seemed to work the first time, but then 10 months later the symptoms came back and we did another round, which did nothing. So that's how we ended up doing more invasive testing. But I'm glad your kiddo cleared up fully with it!

@lovehoneybee: Did you ever find out what was going on, or did it go away? My LO has started having terrible big runny poops this week out of nowhere. No temperature, not rashes, no vomiting, but his appetite is nil.

I don't know if it's a stomach bug or something else.