Re: 1 yr old is sick, should I be worried?

On May 21, 4:10�pm, "Michelle J. Haines" <mhai...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris wrote:

that. There is a thing called the BRAT diet - bread/bananas, rice,
apples (sauce or juice), and toast.

It's actually applesauce, not juice. �BRAT diet is usually given for a
child who has had diarrhea, because those are all binding foods. �Apple
juice does the opposite, and can encourage loose stools. �I've also
never seen bread in the BRAT diet.

Michelle
Flutist

Well, toast is made from bread. lol. (it is actually supposed to be
dry toast due to the butter being more likely to upset a diarrheal
illness.) Actually, there is even a BRATT diet, which includes an
extra T for tea as well. I looked it up in my medical dictionary prior
to posting just to be sure because people dictate it with different
foods, and I wondered why - of course, you do not want to give apple
juice if a child has diarrhea who knowingly reacts that way to apple
juice, but apple juice can actually have a binding effect in pediatric
patients, thereby acting in reverse, for many children. A phenomenon I
believe can be confirmed online, but I don't have time to do it now -
my niece being one of those. The BRAT diet is recommended because the
foods are complex carbohydrates and are easier to digest. The point is
it represents different things to different people and can serve more
than one purpose, i.e. just plain bland foods for a queasy tummy, and
some people throw crackers in there too with no representing letter
even!, or it can represent the foods that have a binding effect for
diarrheal illnesses.
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