diarrhea and when to do to the drs

Henry has had diarrhea since yesterday. I have gone through 30nappies in the last 24hours as he is going every 20-30mins sometimes more often. he also has only one pair of clean pants left He seems quite well otherwise and is drinking a small amount and eating a wee bit but not heaps, really wants bread for some reason. My question is do i take him to the dr? What can they do?
I just googled diarrhea so i could check how to spell it and of course it came up with awful articles like its the leading cause of infant death etc.

hmm that is good advice. I think i should probably take him. It can be so hard to decide with kids. I hate wasting peoples time but i never know if its serious or not as im not a dr.

i seem to be posting lots of questions today. THanks for answering.
I rung the dr asking if they thought that i needed to see the dr and the receptionist is getting the nurse to ring me back. I hope she rings back soon so that if we need to go we can still get an appointment, though they are pretty good at squeezing babies in (and me on occasion) if they think it is urgent. So will just wait for them to ring back.
Ohbaby is where i ask questions if i cant get a hold of my mum lol

I would take him - thats an awful lot of diarhoea.
I think the last time DS had diarhoea the nurse said if he was going more than 8 times in a 12 hour period to bring him in.
He will probably be craving carbohydrates - try not to give him any milk as it makes it worse. I learnt that the hard way!

Hope he gets better soon.

Hmm I would have thought they would definitely recommend bringing him in.

OMG we're in this situation! Jakes been having constant runny poos (first diarrhea then slightly thicker) since the beginning of last week! Hes totally happy, eating ok, drinking heaps of water and juice and playing like normal, no temp or anything but hes got a disgusting (and omg so smelly) nappy every couple of hours!! Hes now got a bum rash poor boy and he comes straight away to tell us he needs a nap change (or cries his head off at night) coz it hurts. We're heading to the doc today! Its just really weird coz otherwise hes perfectly normal

ETA hes got to be in nappies fulltime coz he has no chance of getting to the toilet on time which gets him super upset coz even in nappies hes trying to go toilet but its already come out IYKWIM its distressing to see him to distressed!!

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man i am surprised they didnt want to see him that's a lotof nappies..:( hope he stops soon:)

Snap with Henry chick.
Jake seems to have the bug in his intestine area which might explain why hes not throwing up. They're taking a sample to see whats going on exactly just coz its been so long.
Hope you all feel better really quick hun!!!