anti-diahrrea diet?

[Anonymous]

My daughter has terrible diahrrea that I'd like to "dry up" - hopefully faster than just letting nature run its course (no pun intended). We have some bananas, but what else?

[Anonymous]

The BRAT diet...bananas, rice, applesauce and toast

[Anonymous]

Google the CRAM diet. We have had more than our share of issues with our son, and it works much better than the BRAT diet.

[Anonymous]

17:31 here, thanks PP for the reference to the CRAM diet. I must have been parenting under a rock or something because I've never heard of it. I did a quick google search for it and came up with this (among other pages) http://www.diet1200.com/brat-cram.php It looks promising! I wonder why my peds haven't mentioned it before?

[Anonymous]

Really, there is no magic to any of them. All these foods help stop you up just like other foods clean you out, and you can pretty much mix and match what you need.

In the 3rd world, treating diarrhea in poor and malnourished kids is a bigger deal. There you are trying to prevent starvation while you stop the diarrhea (which can be lethal). So in the 3rd World, some researchers like the CRAM diet because it includes milk and is therefore nutritionally better if that's the only thing a kid is going to get for a meal.

But this is less relevant here, because your kid is probably already getting milk, which is really the key addition to BRAT, as well as all kinds of other foods that balance out a diet. And no CRAM researcher is going to tell you to stay away from bananas.

[Anonymous]

I would also recommend adding yogurt (especially one like Wegmans Super Yogurt which has probiotics in addition to the normal yogurt cultures) to the diet.