What to do if your baby has egg-shaped stools

Only when the baby has normal bowel movements can the gastrointestinal health be guaranteed, so that the baby can better absorb the nutrients in the food. However, many babies always have abnormal bowel movements, among which egg-drop-like stools are the most common. This often makes parents particularly worried, and they don’t know how to better deal with the baby. Let’s learn about what to do if the baby has egg-drop-like stools.

What to do if your baby has egg-shaped stools

Reason 1: Physiological loose stools

Before defining diarrhea in babies, we should first consider whether the baby actually has "diarrhea". Since the intestinal function of normal newborns is not yet fully developed, there are obvious differences in the stool characteristics of babies with different feeding methods. Therefore, when a baby has "diarrhea" symptoms such as frequent bowel movements and loose stools, it may not be possible to conclude that the baby has "diarrhea." For example, a breastfed newborn may defecate up to 7-8 times a day, or even 10-12 times. The stool is usually thin. If the baby is in good spirits, eats well, and has normal weight gain, there is no need to worry. Of course, for babies who are bottle-fed, if they defecate more than 5 times a day, or if there is mucus like snot in their stool, or if it contains a lot of water, they should seek expert examination and treatment in time.

Symptoms: Breastfed newborns have more frequent, looser, and yellower stools every day. The baby is in good spirits, eating normally, and gaining weight normally.

Countermeasures: Feed the baby reasonably, strengthen care, and pay attention to changes in the baby's spirit, appetite, and weight. Generally, no intervention is required. If true diarrhea is suspected, the following causes should be considered or prompt specialist treatment should be sought.

Reason 2: Improper feeding

Feeding newborns with milk powder that is too concentrated, inappropriate, sugar added to milk powder, too cold milk, or adding starchy foods such as rice paste too early can easily lead to food accumulation in newborns, causing diarrhea in babies.

Symptoms: Diarrhea, foamy stools with a sour or rotten smell, sometimes mixed with indigestion particles and mucus. Often accompanied by vomiting and crying.

Countermeasure: Correct unscientific feeding methods. If symptoms do not improve, go to the hospital for treatment.

Reason 3: Allergy to milk powder

2-7 out of 100 babies are allergic to milk powder protein, and this symptom often occurs in babies aged 2-3 months. Newborns with hereditary allergies are more likely to develop allergic symptoms to milk powder protein.

Symptoms: Refractory, non-infectious diarrhea for more than two weeks after feeding with milk or milk powder. The stool may be mixed with mucus and blood, accompanied by skin eczema, urticaria, asthma and other symptoms.

Countermeasure: Feed the newborn with special milk powder according to the doctor's prescription.

Reason 4: Having a cold

When babies have a cold, they often have diarrhea symptoms. Therefore, as long as the root cause of diarrhea - the cold - is cured, the diarrhea will go away naturally. Recovered. If you are worried that your baby may become dehydrated, you should give him oral rehydration fluids as appropriate.

The above is an introduction to what to do if your baby has egg-drop-shaped stools. After understanding it, we know that when we encounter such symptoms, we cannot blindly give the baby medication to relieve them. We must master the correct methods and ways, so that we can relieve such symptoms for the baby without causing harm to the baby.