What should I do if my baby has diarrhea and poops green?

We found that many babies' stools are sometimes green instead of yellow. The green color of the baby's stool may be related to catching a cold. Among them, it may be due to breastfeeding issues, including whether the baby has gastrointestinal diseases recently. These are all reasons that can cause the baby's stool to be green. We need to find appropriate methods to slowly regulate it in normal times.

What should I do if my baby has diarrhea and poops green?

The color of your stool is related to chemical changes in your bile. In the upper part of the small intestine, it is yellow-green due to the action of bilirubin and biliverdin; when it reaches the colon, biliverdin is reduced to bilirubin and becomes yellow.

Green stool may be caused by the following reasons:

1. After a newborn is born, its stool gradually changes from black meconium to dark green, green, and yellow. This is a normal phenomenon.

2. The stool of breastfed babies is acidic, and bilirubin can be converted into biliverdin due to the action of oxidative bacteria, so it is normal for the stool of breastfed babies to be slightly green. Huang Mingjian, Department of Pediatrics, Guangzhou Haizhu District Maternal and Child Health Hospital

3. The feces of infants fed with milk powder are alkaline, which can be further reduced to colorless fecal cholin, so the stool color is lighter. If a formula-fed baby excretes green stools, it means that the intestinal motility is accelerated, indicating that the child's digestive function is poor. The baby can take some oral medications to adjust the gastrointestinal tract (such as Mami Love, etc.).

4. If babies who eat iron-containing milk powder cannot fully absorb the iron in the milk powder, the iron will pass through the digestive tract and come into contact with the air, and their stools will turn green.

5. The amount of feces is small, the frequency is high, and it is green and mucous. This situation is often caused by insufficient feeding, and this type of stool is also called "hunger stool". As long as the baby is fed enough, the bowel movements will return to normal.

In short, the appearance of green stools in babies is related to personal constitution, age, intestinal acidity, intestinal bacterial growth status, and dairy product ingredients (such as iron). As long as the baby's spirit and activities are normal, there is no need to worry.