Causes of sticky stools in babies

Often, people's poor health can be reflected in their stool. If it is a child, then eating the wrong food or feeling uncomfortable or having stomach discomfort can also be reflected in the stool. If the child has a sore throat, then the child's stool will be particularly dry and it will be very difficult to defecate. However, in life, many children have a sticky stool when they defecate. So what causes the sticky stool of children?

Why is the baby's stool sticky?

For babies who are exclusively breastfed, their stools are yellow or golden yellow, with a uniform consistency like a paste or mushy paste, occasionally thin and slightly green, with a sour but not smelly smell, and they have two to four bowel movements a day. If you normally only have 1 to 2 bowel movements a day, but this suddenly increases to 5 to 6 times a day, you should consider whether you are ill. If the child has frequent bowel movements but is in generally good condition and has not lost weight, this does not indicate a disease.

For bottle-fed babies, their stools are light yellow or earthy gray, dry and hard, strip-shaped, often contain milk curds, and have a distinct odor. They defecate 1 to 2 times a day. Observing the stool characteristics of infants and young children can help us understand their digestion conditions. If the baby's stool has a strong smell, it means that the protein is not digested properly. At this time, you should reduce the amount of milk appropriately or dilute the milk.

If there is a lot of foam in the stool, it means that carbohydrates are not digested properly, and you must reduce or even stop feeding starchy foods.

If the stool looks creamy, it indicates fat malabsorption and the intake of fatty foods should be reduced. Regarding her refusal to defecate without stimulation, my baby also started to defecate every few days when he was more than two months old, and the longest time was four days. However, the stool he defecate was still soft and mushy, so I knew he was not constipated.

Constipation refers to the passage of hard, stringy or granular stools. You don't need to worry. This is the case for such a young baby. She has not yet developed the habit of defecating regularly every day, which means she doesn't know how to defecate at all. In this case, you should not use enema. The more you use it, the more dependent it will become, and the less she will know how to defecate on her own.

First of all, you need to massage your baby's belly every day. Use your three middle fingers to massage around the baby's belly button in a clockwise direction for 5 minutes each time, once in the morning and once in the evening. This can help speed up the baby's intestinal peristalsis and make the baby have a bowel reflex.

In addition, children should be trained to have good bowel habits from the age of two months old, so that they can defecate on time, preferably in the early morning or before going to bed at night. Defecation in the morning is best, and defecation at night can help children sleep well at night. Having a bowel movement before meals can help children eat well, but not having a bowel movement after meals.

The mother should first observe the child's bowel movements, and then consciously and regularly arrange bowel movements according to the child's situation. When defecating, the mother should make "mmm mmm" sounds with him.

If the child's stool is sticky, you need to look at the child's symptoms and observe whether the child feels pain when defecating. If the child is in pain when defecating, you need to correct the child's symptoms in time. If the child's stool is sticky, you need to find out which of the above reasons the child has in time, and then treat the child accordingly. When the child's stool is sticky, remember to give the child more water.