Children's stool color

We all know that the color of children's stool can be used to judge the baby's gastrointestinal digestion condition, so mothers should understand which diseases the stool color is related to. When a child's stool is black green or dark green, it may be due to the composition of epithelial cells, or it may be because the vegetables are not digested. For the causes of other colored stools, you can learn about the following.

Normal color of meconium: dark green or dark green

Many parents may not understand meconium. Newborns will excrete meconium within 24 hours after birth and will be completely excreted within 3-4 days. Meconium is black-green or dark green, sticky, and odorless. It is composed of desquamated epithelial cells, concentrated digestive juices, and amniotic fluid swallowed during the fetal period. If the baby is fed adequately, the stool will turn into normal baby stool after 2-3 days.

Normal color of stool for breastfed babies: golden yellow

The color of your baby's stool will change after drinking milk. One or two days after birth, when the baby is able to feed normally and the meconium has been excreted, the stool will become brown-green and soft, and then become yellow or golden. Most of them are uniform paste, or contain a few fecal particles, or are thinner, green, odorless, and acidic (pH 4.7-5.1). The baby has 2-4 bowel movements per day. Generally, the frequency decreases after adding complementary food, and decreases to 2 times/day after 1 year old.

The frequency of bowel movements in breastfed babies is very flexible, and some mothers may even be frightened by the increase in bowel movement frequency. Generally speaking, the number of bowel movements is higher in the neonatal period, 2-5 times a day. Breastfed newborns may even defecate 7-8 times a day. Parents do not need to worry, as this is called physiological diarrhea, which is a normal phenomenon. When the baby grows to a certain age, this diarrhea will disappear automatically. As the child grows older, the frequency of bowel movements will gradually decrease. For children aged 2-3 months, the frequency of bowel movements will be reduced to 1-2 times a day.

The normal color of feces for artificially fed babies: khaki...

Classification of abnormal stool color in infants

To judge the baby's health condition, mothers can find clues from the small details of the baby's stool. The color of the baby's poop can be used to judge the baby's health status. The following baby stool colors are considered abnormal.

Baby's stool is red

In the first case, the blood is bright red and does not mix with the stool. It only adheres to the surface of the stool or drips or sprays out after defecation, indicating bleeding caused by anal or anal canal diseases such as hemorrhoids, anal fissures, intestinal polyps and rectal tumors.

In the second case, red jam-like stool is seen in intussusception; dark red jam-like bloody stool is seen in amoebic dysentery.

The third situation, mucopurulent bloody stools are common in bacterial dysentery and Campylobacter jejuni enteritis.

Baby's poop is shiny

If the baby's stool is shiny in color, it means that the baby eats too much fat, which will produce too many fatty acids in the intestinal cavity, stimulating the intestinal mucosa and increasing intestinal peristalsis, resulting in light yellow liquid and larger stools. Sometimes the stool is shiny and can even slide in the potty.

Green baby poop

If your baby's stool is green, and the amount of stool is small but with a lot of mucus, it is hunger diarrhea. In addition, the stools of some children who are fed formula milk will be dark green. The reason is that a certain amount of iron is added to formula milk. After the iron passes through the digestive tract and comes into contact with the air, it turns dark green.

Baby's stool is grayish white

If your baby's stool is grayish white, you should be alert to the possibility of bile duct obstruction. The grayish white stool caused by this disease is medically called clay-colored stool. In addition, if you consume too much milk or too little sugar, the fatty acids produced will combine with the minerals calcium and magnesium in the food to form fat soaps, and the feces may also appear grayish white, hard, and have a foul odor. ...