<s>[INST] My kid is oozing stool for second week. It all started 2 weeks ago he cought flu like symptoms and at thet same time he start oozing stool. At first i thought that it is going to go away on its own, but now i am starting to worry about it. He is having normal stools ones in 2-3 days. I have to change his panties up to 3 times a day becouse of smiared dark stool. is this someting to be worried about? [/INST] Hi... Thank you for consulting in Chat Doctor. 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.  </s>