What causes white stool in children?

What are the symptoms of white stools in children? Because some children will encounter such situations in daily life. After the disease occurs, parents don’t know how to deal with it. Next, let’s take a look at the reasons why children’s stools turn white?

The primary reason for white stools is the reduction of fecal bilin, which causes the stool to be clay-colored. The main reason for the reduction of fecal bilin is bile duct obstruction, which prevents bile from being excreted.

Excluding medications such as barium meal and barium, if the stool is grayish white, loose, and shaped like white clay used to make white pottery, you should be aware that this may be a problem with the bile duct, affecting the normal secretion of bile, so that it cannot pass through the bile duct into the intestinal cavity and dye the stool yellow. There are gallstones, bile duct infection, and other bile duct diseases.

1. Obstruction of bile secretion: The cause may be hepatitis, congenital biliary stenosis or atresia and other diseases, which prevent bile from being discharged smoothly into the intestine.

2. Taking too many white medicines: especially some medicines for treating diarrhea are white turbid liquids, and the dosage is large, it can make the stool turn white. Once you stop taking the medicine, your stool will return to its normal yellow color. The most common case is the occasional appearance of white stools for two or three days, which then returns to normal yellow stools. It may be caused by temporary blockage of the biliary system.

This is mostly because the baby cannot absorb the calcium in the milk powder, forming calcium soap which is excreted from the body. It is recommended that babies drink more water and mix milk powder according to scientific proportions. It is best to use Nuka probiotics to help them adapt. As the baby grows up and his absorption ability increases, this situation will improve.

The above is about the reasons why children have white stools. I hope this knowledge can be of great help to many parents and they can find ways to treat it. Parents should also pay more attention to their children instead of being careless.