Baby's stool smells fishy and contains mucus

Careful parents will observe that children are actually more prone to illness, and each illness is difficult to cure, so parents will be particularly worried that their children will be infected with certain bacteria or toxins due to certain diseases. For example, the baby's stool often has a fishy smell and contains mucus. This may be related to gastrointestinal function and needs to be checked and treated as soon as possible.

Mucous stool

In case of enteritis, the increased mucus is evenly mixed in the feces; in case of colitis, the feces have gradually taken shape, and the mucus is not easy to mix with the feces; the mucus from the rectum adheres to the surface of the feces. The mucus of simple mucus stool is transparent and slightly viscous, while the purulent mucus is yellow-white and opaque. It is seen in various types of enteritis, bacillary dysentery, amoebic dysentery, and acute schistosomiasis.

Overview

The stool is sticky and frozen, or red or white, accompanied by abdominal pain, tenesmus, and occurs 2-10 times a day. This is called mucus stool and is also one of the main symptoms of dysentery. Because the stool is sticky and icy and feels uncomfortable when discharged, it is also called "intestinal dysentery" and "congestion" and is divided into "white dysentery" and "red dysentery" according to the color of the sticky stool.

Etiology and pathogenesis

Feeling cold and damp

Being exposed to cold and dampness or eating too much raw and cold food can damage the stomach and intestines. The spleen is weak and cannot function properly, water and dampness stagnate inside the body, the middle yang is insufficient, the dampness turns into cold, the cold and dampness are contained inside the body, and improper diet can cause the cold and dampness to block the intestines, obstructing the qi of the large intestine, causing qi stagnation and blood stasis. The qi and blood combine with the foul qi in the intestines and turn into pus and blood, causing dysentery due to cold and dampness. Their stools are mostly white frozen.

Cold stomach

People with weak spleen and stomach, who are affected by cold and damp air, or who suffer from damp-heat dysentery and take excessive cold and cool foods, will suppress the middle yang. Once the middle yang is damaged, the spleen will not function well, the qi of the large intestine will be blocked, qi and blood will easily stagnate, and qi and blood will mix with the foul air in the intestines and easily turn into white jelly. All of these are due to spleen yang deficiency and insufficient circulation in the middle part, which leads to gastrointestinal dysfunction and the production of white frost. Once the circulation in the middle part is improved, the white frost will disappear.

Damp-heat accumulation

When you first feel the summer heat and dampness, or eat too much strong wine, rich, sweet and fatty foods, you will generate damp heat, which will accumulate inside your body, causing abdominal qi stagnation, stagnation of qi and blood, and turning into pus and blood, which will cause damp-heat dysentery and produce red and white frozen mucus in the stool. If damp-heat dysentery does not heal for a long time and the damp-heat evil lingers, the remaining damp-heat evil in the stomach and intestines will never be cleared, and the filthy things in the intestines cannot be completely eliminated, resulting in prolonged mucus in the stool.