My son is doing well on the vegan diet.  On the weekends when he is home with me he does great.  But low and behold, I take him to daycare problems start up.  I pack his lunch for daycare, but I let the them give him fruit.

Here is the issue.  He gets diarrhea and his poop stinks, and he is gassy.  It happened Monday, yesterday he was okay, and today it happened again.  ON the weekends his poop has no odor, no more then normal gas, and no diarrhea. 

I have told them teacher after tacher that he is lactose intollerant and can't have dairy, or meat, we are vegan.  It is on the board there that he is only allowed to have homefood, but daycare fruit is okay.  I have talked to teacher after teacher and they all swear up and down that he doesn't eat the other kids food, doesn't get ahold of their milk.  They have even started to put him in a high chair, yet he still has the problem. 

Monday was a completely different lunch then today that I packed for him, no similarities at all.  I really think his diarrhea is the result of something he ate.  It has "lactose intollerance" written all over it, every simptom, including congestion, which when he doesn't consume dairy, dissapears. 

After talking to them I am inclined to believe them, they seem completely sinsere with complying with my wishes and say that they are very careful that he doesn't get the other kids food.  It has me thinking that he is sensitive to something else.  The only thing that is common to his menu on Monday and today was oranges.  The daycare gives those canned mandarian oranges.  At first I thought food poisoning from the oranges, but the other kids haven't been affected. 

So, my question is, could the oranges be giving him the problems?  I rarely give him canned fruits, and when I do I only do the ones canned with pear juice.  The only thing I can think he is getting freely at daycare that he doesn't get at home is high fructose corn syrup with the canned fruits. 

At this point I am grasping at straws, I have no idea what is causing his problems.  I am thinking of saying, no food from daycare at all for a week to see if his problem clears up, and then let them give him fruit again and see if it returns. 

He used to consume dairy all the time and had very little issues with it, other then very stinky poop and cronic coughing and congestion, but never diarrhea.  So I doubt that even if he is getting dairy there, it can't be much, and certainly not enough to cause the problems he is having.  It has to be something else.  Could it be the oranges?

Any suggestions are appreciated as I am desperate to find the cause.  I really think it is something he is eating by the fact none of the other kids are having diarrhea problems, and it isn't everyday, only on certain days, seeming only on days they have canned mandarian oranges.  But has anybody ever heard of canned mandarian oranges giving diarrhea??? I sure haven't!