Dear Dr. Santosh, Aditi, my grand daughter is 1 yr old. She was taken to the swimming pool . 2 days after that she started getting running nose. She was given T-minic drops for 5 days. She was better as far as the cold was concerned, but got fever and started vomiting. her paeditrician put her on 2 days medication of calpol, zanocin and Raglan. evem after 2 days she is still getting fever. Vomitting stopped , but started loose motion. We are worried. Pl guide us. Can we give bonnisan instead of Zanocin? do u suggest something else. We need your help. thanking you Jaya padmanabhan
Hi...greetings from Chennai. I am a consultant in Kan chi Bamako CHILD Trust Hospital in Chennai. What your granddaughter is having is only a simple viral illness - starting with cold and cough and now culminating with diarrhea. It seems your kid is having viral diarrhea. Once it starts it will take 5-7 days to completely get better. Unless the kids having low urine output or very dull or excessively sleepy or blood in motion or green bilious vomiting...you need not worry. There is no need to use antibiotics unless there is blood in the motion. Antibiotics might worsen if unnecessarily used causing antibiotic associated diarrhea. I suggest you use zinc supplements (Z&D Chat Doctor. 