I want to be sure we're talking about the same thing, first. When Pickle (the 1yo) has sandy poop, it's not dry, or hard, or anything like that. It's perfectly normal looking, only when you start cleaning it off, you can tell it has "grit" in it --just like very fine sand. Is this the same thing? How does that happen from a blockage? Does the sandy poop have anything to do with leaky gut or is it only significant to that aspect of the article because a blockage can aggravate (?) leaky gut?
Oh, BTW, Pickle also has slightly larger particles in his poop sometimes, that are not gritty, they are kinda like tiny little popped balloons or something. I can see them being described as "pebbles" or "gravel" only they are not hard. Is this the gravelly poop she is talking about?
Also, in case it's useful info, he was breast milk only for much longer than the the average kid. And these episodes started happening while he was an infant (no solid foods) and no access to sand or anything else he could have ingested that might pass thru and show up in his poop. It doesn't happen all the time, only occasionally. And I have not spotted any patterns that might link it to a particular food.
Thanks,
WR