What to do if your newborn baby's poop smells sour

Every baby is a piece of flesh and blood from his mother’s body. Because every mother has to go through the experience of ten months of pregnancy to give birth to her beloved baby, raising a child is also a particularly hard task. Growing a child from childhood to adulthood is a process and the child may get sick. Have you ever experienced the phenomenon of a newborn’s poop having a sour and smelly smell? What should you do if your child encounters such a situation? Let’s take a look below.

The frequency of bowel movements is higher than usual, the texture is thinner, and contains small yellow oily particles with a sour taste. This is caused by fat indigestion.

Adjust the diet: If you are breastfeeding, you can only feed your baby the first half of the milk, and squeeze out the second half of the milk with a higher fat content and discard it. In addition, mothers should drink more water and eat less high-fat or fried foods.

The stool is watery, foamy, and tastes sour and pungent like rotten food. This may be caused by indigestion of sugars.

Adjust your diet: add less sugar to milk, or stop consuming dairy products, replace rice soup and light soy milk with glucose for flavoring.

Feces that smell like rotten eggs and contain undigested milk curds may be due to protein indigestion.

Adjust diet: For babies who are not eating complementary foods, the amount of milk can be limited for 1-2 days. For babies who have already been given complementary foods such as eggs, fish, and minced meat, you can stop adding these foods and continue adding them gradually after their digestion returns to normal.

The stool is brown and ball-shaped, difficult to pass, and even has blood around it. This is because the hard stool has damaged the anus.

Adjust the diet: drink more water, feed some vegetable soup, carrot puree, seaweed soup, apple puree, radish juice, cucumber juice, etc. Babies over 1 year old can be given honey water to drink.

Different treatment for abnormal stool

The above are the problems about the sour and smelly poop of newborns. I guess every mother has experienced these problems. The above knowledge can help new mothers better understand the process of their children. I also hope that mothers can learn how to take good care of their babies so that their children can have a healthy body and grow up happily.

If your baby eats green leafy vegetables, his stool will be light green. After eating tomatoes or watermelons, the stool may be slightly red. This is a normal metabolic phenomenon and parents do not need to worry.