Why does my four-month-old baby have green stools?

Sometimes children's stools may be green, which makes many mothers feel very worried. In fact, green stools do not have much impact on human health, because it is very likely that the color of the stool is affected by the digestion of bile, which is a normal phenomenon. However, there are many reasons for green stools, and it is very likely caused by physical pathology, so you need to pay attention to children's green stools. What are they specifically?

The baby has green stools. If breastfeeding, as long as the baby has a normal amount of milk, is in a good mood, sleeps well, and gains weight normally. Generally no special treatment is required. If it is mixed feeding, you need to judge whether the baby is full. If the baby is not full, the intestinal peristalsis will speed up and green stools will appear. In this case, just increase the amount of milk and make sure the baby is full. Catching a cold is also one of the common causes of rapid intestinal peristalsis and green stools. Green stools caused by this reason may also have symptoms similar to a cold. If you only have green stools, pay attention to keeping your abdomen warm, especially at night, and you will recover in a few days. If you have cold symptoms, you should also receive symptomatic treatment for the cold. In addition, if you have green stools, frequent stools, and watery stools, and diarrhea, you should go to the hospital for examination in time.

The stools of a normally breastfed baby may occasionally be light green. If your baby's stool is dark green, it is a sign of indigestion. The cause of indigestion may be that the mother has eaten irritating or too cold food. In addition, the mother's emotional tension and anxiety can also affect the child's bowel movements. When the stool is acidic, the bile contained in it oxidizes into green when exposed to air. Bilirubin in bile is a yellow pigment that makes feces yellow. After oxidation, bilirubin turns into biliverdin, which makes feces green. When the excreted feces encounter oxygen in the air in the diaper, the bilirubin is oxidized into biliverdin, making the surface of the feces green. In addition, due to the action of Lactobacillus bifidum, the intestines have become acidic, and the stool has been oxidized in the intestines, turning green and being excreted from the body. Therefore, green stool is not abnormal, it is a normal phenomenon and there is no need to worry about it.

To sum up, we can roughly understand that the color of a person's stool can actually reflect the health of the body, especially for children. Because the body is still in the development stage and the various organs are not yet very sound, mothers can identify the child's physical condition by the color of the child's stool. If the child's stool is green, parents should not panic.