DD has had very loose/diarrhea-like stools for 3 weeks (ever since both kiddos got a little tummy bug - lasted 1 week for DS age 3). She is breastfed, plus solids like babyfood fruits and veggies, puffs and whole wheat bread here and there. Normally, her stools were really well formed for a breastfed baby.

I have tried the bRAT diet and probiotics, neither of which have made much difference. I thought we were seeing improvement two days ago when she actually had a "normal" (for her) stool, but it was apparently an anomoly.

Over the phone, the ped said he didn't think it was a bacterial in the gut issue, b/c the probiotics didn't help. He offered several suggestions:

1. continue to breastfeed, do BRAT diet (but switch to fresh but ripe bananas, instead of babyfood bananas), and add powdered fiber to her food to bulk up the stools

or

2. switch her to a sensitive formula for a week, and see if it is the sugar/lactose that is causing the diarrhea; pump in the meantime, and then go back to breast when all is resolved

or

3. since she is 11 months old, give her whole milk for a week to see if that helps - he says a lot of times when breastfed babies wean to whole milk, they get constipated. maybe this would firm up her stools. Pump in the meantime, go back to breast when all is resolved.

4. Give her some Kaopectate. He does NOT like giving babies this young Immodium, but says that Kao will do them no harm.

I will mention I am planning to wean in a few weeks, so I really don't want to do option 2 or 3.

I understand that the gut can be fragile after a tummy bug. in fact, DS was way over the bug part but his stools just wouldn't firm up until we gave him a tiny bit of Pepto, and it seemed like once his bowels got a chance to heal, it was all good from there. So, I understand the reasoning behind Option 2 and 3, but in a way, I'm not sure they make sense.

Help! WWYD?