He felt warm all over and he was getting very, very, sleepy. Presently he stopped nursing and drifted back to into a dreamless sleep. As the fructose in the apple juice made its way down his small intestine, the high sugar content acted like a laxative and began loosening his bowels in his sleep. The unaccustomed sugars in his gut would prevent his digestive system from reabsorbing the water from his stools. Within nine hours, his stools would be as loose and uncontrollable as any infant’s.