Too much fruit?

[reren]

My nearly 2 year old has been doing messy poos for a few weeks - varying in how gross they are but definitely not as solid as they were- he is loving blueberries and eating a lot of strawberries and blueberries - im guessing these are the culprits as he is in fine spirits and doesnt seem unwell - does anyone have any tips on how much fruit is too muCh and / or what foods are good to make sure he has aswell to - ahem - bind him up a bit! I think eggs are quite binding? He doesnt drink Cows milk as that tends to make him constipated (has oat milk instead) but maybe i ned to put some cows milk back in the mix?

Sorry for the rather disgusting nature of this post!!

[Crokes]

Have had this with my little one too, lots of soft fruit was the culprit for us. My mum always said apples and eggs were binding... not sure how much fruit is too much, but as he loves the soft fruit so much then anything you can do to reduce it a bit would help (but I'm no expert!). No idea about the effect of cow's milk on it though.

Good luck!

[Fidgetsmum]

Bananas are binding. Apples have fibre in so will have the reverse effect. Try low residue stuff like white rice, white pasta etc if you're really worried or as you say, just less fruit. Perhaps a trip to the GP for a stool test (sorry) would ensure it's not a mild bacterial thing. Both my kids went through these phases. Unless they had a temp or seemed ill, I ignored it and it always sorted itself out with some mild dietary tinkering.

[lucyA1308]

My eldest, at around 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 yrs developed what the doctor called Toddler Diahorea.

This sounds like what your little one has. It is brought on by too much fruit and fruit juice.

My daughter loves fruit, and would have chosen an apple or banana over a chocolate cake every time, and so it was quite hard to hold her back from eating fruit.

Even bananas, which when she was weaning had a binding effect, now seemed to have totally the opposite effect.

We increased the fibre content in her diet, made sure if she did have fruit juice, it was very diluted, and if she had any fruit, she only had a small amount.

She is 2 1/2 now, and seems back to normal now. We still keep an eye on it - I am sure that nothing in excess is ever all that good, but definitely the poos are less spontaneous etc etc.

[oimissus]

Miss Oi's poos have always swung between pretty solid and pretty splatty (sorry!), with no rhyme or reason to it as far as I could tell, without it seeming to affect her well-being so I've never bothered to do anything about it. She's veggie, but doesn't eat much fruit and no juice, and always white bread, rice and pasta. Might be the heat? Or nothing at all? If she's perky I wouldn't worry too much (though I have a very cavalier attitude to this kind of thing).