Hi,y y I answer your health queries right now ? Please type your query here...my two year old drinks excessive amounts of water and food though out the day. He is a very active child. He hasn t put on weight nor lost any. But with the amount of food he eats I would of thought he would of. His nappies aren t as heavy as they should be with the amount of water he consumes. He sleeps well. 12 hours though out the night and 2-3 during the day. But when he wakes up from his day sleep he wakes up in a very bad mood and doesn t stop crying until he is feed and has a drink. What do you think? Is it normal?
Amount of fluid intake and excretion by urine may not be equal as there are other ways by which fluid comes out-of-body most important being sweating and evaporation from respiratory tract. This is called insensible water loss. As your child is very active then he must be sweating a lot. If he doesn't develop edema or swelling, decreased weight gain etc., you need not worry about decreased urine output. Give him lots of juices, fluids, nutritious diet to maintain good physical and mental growth.