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Posted: 04 March 2008 at 2:39pm | IP Logged

  Hi everyone  has anyone came across kissing tonsillitis my one year old baby has it at the moment has been on three different antibiotics in the past month doctors have reffered him to ENT consultant but just this morning he had blood in his nappy took him to doctors and was told not to worry as this is due to the antibiotics .

He has not eaten food for four weeks only milk . i would appreciate any advise you may have

Posted: 04 March 2008 at 2:42pm | IP Logged

Hello and welcome.

I'm afraid i have no advice (sorry). Hope you manage to get to the bottom of it though and he is soon on the mend. xxx

Posted: 04 March 2008 at 3:41pm | IP Logged

Hi welcome to madmums,

Im sorry your little one is feeling so unwell. My son is 4yrs, and last summer he had a tonsilectomy because he had recurrent tonsilitous. He had a lot of antibiotics, and he was very ill most of the times he had it, but I never saw blood in his nappy, although your doctor does not seem concerned.

I hope he gets his ENT appointment quickly and he is soon feeling better.

Posted: 04 March 2008 at 4:10pm | IP Logged

Thanks for your're reply i have never seen blood in his nappy before even though he has had antibiotics a few times think i will go back to doctors for a second opinion just to put my mind at rest

Posted: 04 March 2008 at 8:21pm | IP Logged

Blood in the nappy is caused by the antibiotics irritating the colon and causing colitis in the bowel.  The best thing you can do to help calm it down is try yoghurt to help replace the good bacteria.  If this seems to make it worse then starve from dairy products for a week and then slowly reintroduce them.  Sometimes the yoghurt will help sooth the bowel and put good bacteria back and sometimes the bacteria has caused the inflamation to make the bowel intolerant to dairy products it won't last very long though.  As long as you are giving plenty of fluids it really won't harm him too much.  You don't say if you are breastfeeding or not but if you are breastfeeding will also help but again you might need to cut dairy out of your diet to help the inflammation go down.

If at all conserned a trip to the GP for some advice is always the best thing to do.

Posted: 05 March 2008 at 8:32am | IP Logged

Thanks for advice will give it a try