my son is 17 months old and has had tan colored diarrhea for almost 3 weeks now. He has about 4-5 bouts a day. He has thrown up maybe about once a week or less. I took him to the doctor and they are doing stool samples but i just want to know what s going on.
Hi... Thank you for consulting in Chat Doctor. It seems your kid is having viral diarrhea. Once it starts it will take 5-7 days to completely get better. Unless the kids having low urine output or very dull or excessively sleepy or blood in motion or green bilious vomiting...you need not worry. There is no need to use antibiotics unless there is blood in the motion. Antibiotics might worsen if unnecessarily used causing antibiotic associated diarrhea. I suggest you use zinc supplements (Z&D Chat Doctor.