Green poop for newborns?

Newborn babies are generally unable to speak because they are too young. During this period, mothers generally need to observe them carefully. In fact, parents can usually observe whether the baby's body is healthy by observing the color of the baby's stool. Under normal circumstances, the baby's stool is yellow or golden yellow. If the baby's stool is green, parents need to pay attention to it, because the baby may have a digestive disease.

Feces are the normal excretion of our human body. After we eat food, the nutrients in it are absorbed and utilized by the body, and the remaining waste and residue are no longer needed by the body, so they become feces and are then excreted from the body, thus forming a normal and healthy body cycle. Therefore, defecation is important for everyone, especially for babies. Whether the baby's defecation is normal is a signal for parents to discover whether the baby's body is normal. So, what is the matter with the newborn baby's green poop?

Green stools in babies are generally caused by the following reasons. Mothers should pay attention to compare and determine what causes the baby to have green stools, and prescribe the right medicine to choose a treatment method suitable for the baby. What is the reason for the baby's green stool? The reasons are:

1. Babies may spit up milk or have green stools if they catch a cold or have indigestion. If there is a bacterial infection, active treatment is required. If the test results are normal, the baby may have indigestion or a cold abdomen.

2. When the baby is not full, the baby's gastrointestinal motility is too fast due to hunger, so the bilirubin in the intestines has not been converted yet and is excreted from the stool, making the stool green and watery.

4. If a baby who eats iron-containing milk powder cannot fully absorb the iron in the milk powder, his stool will be yellow-green, the white particles in the stool will be larger, and will be more likely to have a foul odor.

5. When babies first start eating vegetable puree, they often excrete a small amount of green vegetable puree in their stool. Some mothers often think that this is indigestion and stop adding vegetable puree. In fact, this phenomenon is common when healthy babies change their food.

If a newborn baby has green stools, eats well, and is in good spirits, parents do not need to worry as this is a normal and temporary phenomenon. When the baby catches a cold, is hungry or has indigestion, the newborn's stool may turn green. Parents should pay attention to distinguish and take special care of the baby.

1. Breastfed babies have green stools

The color of stool is closely related to the chemical changes of bile. Bile in the upper small intestine contains bilirubin and biliverdin, which give stool its yellow-green color. When the stool is pushed into the colon, biliverdin is reduced and converted into bilirubin, and the stool becomes yellow. The stool of breastfed babies is acidic. Under the action of intestinal bacteria, part of the bilirubin is converted into biliverdin, making the stool light green. This is a normal phenomenon. If the baby is feeding well and is in good general condition, parents don't need to worry. This is only a temporary phenomenon and will improve as the baby grows older.

2. Catch a cold

If the milk the child drinks is a little cold or the child's abdomen or feet are cold, the stool may turn green.

This is because catching a cold can cause the intestines to move too quickly, and the biliverdin in the colon does not have time to be reduced to bilirubin, so it appears green. This is one of the common causes of green stool. If it is just green stool and other conditions are normal, parents can pay attention to keeping the baby's abdomen warm and the baby will recover in a few days. If accompanied by cold symptoms, symptomatic treatment of the cold should be given at the same time.

3. Hunger

Some babies do not eat enough, and hunger will speed up intestinal peristalsis and cause green stools. Babies may cry and be restless due to hunger. In this case, just increase the amount of milk and let the baby eat enough.

4. Iron-fortified formula

The stool of artificially fed babies is alkaline, which can further convert some fecal bilirubin into fecal bilirubin, which is colorless, so the stool is mostly light yellow. If your baby's formula isn't fully absorbed from the iron in it, it can also cause his stools to be green.