After symptoms disappear, serve the child soft foods, such as cooked cereal, rice, eggs, custard, baked potato, and yogurt, for 1 or 2 days. Your child can resume a normal diet 2 or 3 days after the diarrhea stops, but fruit, alcohol, and highly seasoned foods should be avoided for several more days. When signs of infection have decreased, appetite returns, and alertness, strength, and feeling of well-being will allow. IF Diarrhea lasts more than 48 hours. Mucus, blood, or worms appear in the stool.
Severe pain develops in the child's abdomen or rectum.
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