anyway, I had to describe her symptoms, even down to describing what her poop looked like and the nurse said as it was most probably a bacterial infection, one of the best things to give sophie is honey!!!!!!!
not suitable for the under 1s but give one 5ml spoon every 3 hours, plus 5mls after each liquid stool. She also said that starving has been shown to have no effect on diarrhoea and to feed soph if she was hungry which is what I'd been doing anyway 'cos sophie was getting so upset. also, not to cut out milk either (soph not being lactose intollerant and being a great lover of milk).
The only things she told me to cut out until soph's better are brown rice, wholewheat bread, nuts and dried fruit as they can irritate a poorly bowel.
this morning after yesterday's honey doses sophie is bright, happy, bouncy, no temperature and semi-solid poop.
I am astounded, I have been rubbing honey into wounds for 2 years now to aid healing; i have thyroid problems so I heal more slowly than other poeple, honey brings my healing time back up to normal so for normal people it will speed healing up too. I've also been gargling the stuff when I've got throat infections since I was a child but this is just ASTOUNDING.
I had to administer the honey in a baby medicine syringe because sophie doesn't like honey
but if it's in a syringe she assumes it's medicine.she's beside me now pestering me for bread! hahaha!!
Ratty
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