What is the cause of the baby's dark green stool?

It is a common phenomenon for babies to have dark green stools. Mothers are often very anxious when babies have this phenomenon and they don’t know what is going on. In fact, when babies show such phenomena, mothers must pay attention to comparison and find out the reasons. So what does it mean when the baby has dark green poop? I hope every parent will pay attention to this problem so that it can be solved in time.

1. Babies may spit up milk or have green stools if they catch a cold or have indigestion. If there is a bacterial infection, active treatment is required. If the test results are normal, the baby may have indigestion or a cold abdomen.

2. When the baby is not full, the baby's gastrointestinal motility is too fast due to hunger, so the bilirubin in the intestines has not been converted yet and is excreted from the stool, making the stool green and watery.

3. During the digestion process of fat, less bile is consumed, and the excess bile is excreted in the stool, making the stool green. If the mother thinks that the baby eats a lot, it means that he has indigestion, and she can give the baby some probiotics.

4. If a baby who eats iron-containing milk powder cannot fully absorb the iron in the milk powder, his stool will be yellow-green, the white particles in the stool will be larger, and will be more likely to have a foul odor.

5. When babies first start eating vegetable puree, they often excrete a small amount of green vegetable puree in their stool. Some mothers often think that this is indigestion and stop adding vegetable puree. In fact, this phenomenon is common when healthy babies change their food.

Even if the weather is very hot at night, mothers must cover their babies with quilts. You can cover your baby with a thin layer of quilt, otherwise the baby will easily have abnormal bowel movements after catching a cold. If the baby continues to have dark green stools for a long time, the mother needs to take the baby to the hospital.