Is brown stool normal for babies?

When a baby's body shows abnormalities, there will be some manifestations, and parents should pay attention to these manifestations. Is it normal for the baby's stool to be brown? This is something that many parents do not understand. There are some reasons for the baby to have such a situation, and is brown color correct? The following is a detailed introduction so that parents can have some understanding of this type of problem and know what to do best.

Is it normal for your baby to have brown stools?

Breastfed children: The stool is soft, golden yellow in color, with uniform consistency, shaped like soft butter, occasionally thin and slightly green, sour but not smelly, and the average bowel movement is one to four times a day. If you have four to five bowel movements a day, or even seven to eight times, but are generally in good condition and have gained weight, this cannot be considered pathological.

For bottle-fed babies: their stools are light yellow, dry, plentiful, have a slight putrid odor, and are sometimes mixed with milk curds. If you have only one or two bowel movements a day, you are prone to constipation.

The color of your stool is related to chemical changes in your bile. In the upper part of the small intestine, it is yellow-green due to the action of bilirubin and biliverdin; when it reaches the colon, biliverdin is reduced to bilirubin and becomes yellow. The stool of breastfed babies is acidic, and bilirubin can be converted into biliverdin due to the action of oxidative bacteria, so the normal stool of breastfed babies is slightly green.

However, the feces of infants fed with cow's milk are alkaline and can be further reduced to colorless fecal cholin, so the stool color is lighter. If a baby fed with cow's milk has green stools, it means that the intestinal motility is accelerated or there is inflammation in the intestine, which is a symbol of diarrhea.

After understanding whether the brown color of the baby's stool is normal, if there is any abnormality in the baby's stool, you can understand the baby's physical condition through the stool, which can also be helpful when treating the baby's illness. When the baby has difficulty in defecation, you should also choose some food to relieve it and avoid constipation.