Patient's question:
A bit of frothy stool, went to the hospital for medicine, but it still persisted for a month. Later, after a stool test, it was diagnosed as enteritis with rotavirus infection. 【It seems there were a few white blood cells in the stool, but I'm not sure about the inflammation.】Hospitalized for 6 days 【drank diarrhea formula during the hospital stay】 and was discharged normally. That evening, around 8:30 PM, I gave her 90 ml of formula, and she went to sleep at 9:00 PM. She slept straight through until 7:00 AM the next morning. When she woke up, she had pale, rice-like stool that looked like undigested Montmorillonite. Is this normal? Why would this happen? She hadn't had a bowel movement for 6 days during her hospital stay, and the day before discharge, her stool test was normal 【the doctor said there was no inflammation in her stool anymore】. She's only 100 days old and hasn't eaten all night. She doesn't like drinking formula and only takes 60-100 ml each time. Will this not make her hungry?Doctor's answer:
During the hospital stay, the nausea and vomiting formula was consumed because it increased stomach pressure. The stomach had just fully recovered and should not be immediately fed with regular formula. For now, the body cannot properly absorb the protein from the formula. Under normal circumstances, switching to a new formula should be done gradually, usually taking more than a week to slowly reduce the amount. This means you can mix one part of the nausea and vomiting formula with ten parts of regular formula, then on the third day, mix it with one-third of the regular formula, and so on. If this gradual approach doesn't work, switching to goat milk formula is also a good option, as it has fine particles that are closest to human milk and is also rich in nutrients.