Good Morning,
I'm going to continue to update this thread in hopes it may answer some questions any other parent may have. I know I hate it when I find a thread that is talking about a topic I am interested in and abruptly ends with no resolution.
7/11/2016 update:
Since we met with a Pediatric Gastroenterologist on Friday, our little guy has been doing much better. The PG suggested he might have something called "Toddlers Diarrhea" which is something neither my wife or myself had ever heard of. Below are the common symptoms:
"Toddler’s diarrhea is also known as chronic nonspecific diarrhea
of childhood, and it affects children from 6 months to 5 years of
age. Children with toddler’s diarrhea will have 3-10 loose stools
per day. These stools typically occur during the day when the
child is awake and sometimes immediately after eating. The stool
is frequently watery or loose and may have food particles in it
although the stools should not contain blood. The child may
have days when stools are more formed. Despite the diarrhea, the
child continues to grow and gain weight appropriately as long as
the diet contains enough calories. "
http://www.gikids.org/files/documents/d ... ddlers.pdfThese line up pretty well with the symptoms our son had/has. He has waving multiple loose stools a day, some had M but never blood. He never lost his appetite, and was never "down" or low on energy. Although he didn't gain any weight, after 6 weeks of constant D, he maintained his current weight.
The only changes we made since our meeting was to eliminate all juices and his formula (Alimentum.) We have also increases our son's fiber intake with whole grain bread/waffles etc. to try to add some substance to his stools. After meeting with the PG and reading over this literature he provided about TD, I recall listening to our sons belly rumble as he was drinking his bottle of formula. I also remember his D seeming to get worse after a bottle of sports drink (higher sugar than pedialyte.)
These changes have allowed our son to have only four bm's over the weekend. The first was still pretty loose, but better than before. His second, which came on Saturday afternoon, was 180 degrees from what it has been. It was actually a little too firm for our liking. If he would have had this BM three months ago, we would have been increasing the prune juice in his diet. Third BM was perfect size and texture, but the 4th was a beast. The texture was good, but the volume was too much for his diaper to handle. Although it was large, we are still happy with it.
Needless to say, this weekend has given us hope that w have turned a corner.
These drastic changes have us questioning if the C-Diff diagnosis was a false positive. Like some have suggested in this thread, some children under the age of two, have C-diff in their flora normally.
Either way, we are still giving him 125mg x 4 for another four or five days until we start a the taper. We will then do 125mg x 2 for seven days, 125mg x 1 for seven days, 125mg x 1 every 2nd day for 14 days, then finally 125mg every third day for 21 days. The entire cycle will end on 9/9/2016.
We will be calling the ID in a day or two, assuming his BM's stay "good" to see if he wants us to continue with the above schedule.
That's all for now