My son is sick

[stacirae]

Hi Shelley,

I was wondering if you have any advice for me. My son has had a bit of a cold, no biggie. But last night he drank some banana-strawberry kefir and went to bed saying he had a tummy ache now (right after drinking it). He was up at the early hours started vomiting. The kefir was still in his belly and it came out with a lot of mucus. I tried to give him a few sips of warm water after he had vomited and he threw that up. I then tried to give him a few drops of colloidal silver incase it was bacterial and he threw that up too. What worries me is that he can’t keep anything down so I fear he will become dehydrated. Also he has stomach cramps so badly that he cried out. He was constipated a few days ago but that seems to have cleared up as he voided fine today after vomiting, not diarrhea, but solid. He is vomiting a lot of mucus but he has no fever. Any thoughts or suggestions?

[shelley]

Is he generally intolerant to dairy? Sometimes even fermented milk will bother those who are lactose intolerant. Hopefully that's all that caused this, that and a healing crisis from the microbes. Children shouldn't be given large amounts of anything bacterial, most of my advice to eat fermented foods goes for adults, children should have teeny-tiny portions and get acclimated very slowly, a bit faster if they were breast-fed. When I had a small gass of strawberry kefir as a child I got bad cramps, as did my brother.