Why does my baby's stool contain mucus and milk curds?

Mothers should pay great attention to their children who are breastfeeding, because babies during this period are very prone to certain diseases due to their poor physical fitness. It is very common for babies to have mucus and curds in their stool. Many mothers do not know how to deal with this situation when their babies have it. So, what is going on when there is mucus and curds in the baby's stool?

First, why are there mucus and curds in the baby's stool? During the infant stage, the digestive organs are not yet fully developed and the digestive adaptability is poor. There are many reasons for indigestion due to improper diet and feeding. For example, irregular feeding resulting in excessive feeding, unreasonable diet composition, too high milk concentration or sudden changes in diet, inability to adapt to the addition of too much complementary food, and too high nutritional value of food during weaning period will make the infant's digestive organs unable to adapt, resulting in indigestion and abnormal stools. The symptoms are large amount, lots of foam, porridge-like, egg-drop-like, watery, and accompanied by a special sour and smelly odor. These symptoms of indigestion can be corrected by adjusting the diet.

Second, it is normal if this situation occurs when you first add milk powder, but if this situation still exists after a week, you need to replace the milk powder in time. If the baby is fed with milk powder and there are curds in the stool, it is necessary to consider that it is related to gastrointestinal dysfunction. You can give the baby oral Mami Love as a supplement, feed the baby milk powder to prevent diarrhea, and take oral infant spleen-strengthening syrup for supplementary treatment. You can also massage your lower abdomen clockwise, and pay attention to not feeding too quickly when feeding, and pay attention to the size of the nipple. Mothers can give their babies some probiotics, which can help regulate the stomach and intestines and are good for the baby. It would be better if you put a belly button patch on your baby. Mothers can give their babies some goat milk powder, which is easier to digest. Generally speaking, if your baby has milk curds in his stool, you must check the quality of the milk powder. If the milk powder is not regular, it may cause the baby to have milk curds. In addition, it may also be caused by the baby's gastrointestinal dysfunction. At this time, the mother can give the baby some probiotics for conditioning, or give some Mommy Love for treatment. In addition, mothers must pay attention to choosing some more regular milk powder. Generally speaking, goat milk powder is better for absorption. After drinking milk, be sure to drink plenty of water and massage your lower abdomen.

What's going on if the baby's stool contains mucus and curds? The baby's stool contains curds and is in a flowery pattern (the stool is loose and resembles an egg flower pattern), 5-6 times a day. At this time, the time and amount of breastfeeding should be reduced. To improve the curds caused by poor protein digestion, if the curds in the baby's stool are no larger than a grain of rice, it is generally considered to be within the normal range and the mother does not need to worry too much. However, when the curds in the stool are larger than rice grains, parents should pay enough attention. In fact, curds are formed when the baby cannot digest protein. The undigested protein combines with the minerals in the food to form curds. For breastfed babies, mothers should try to reduce the protein intake in their own food, that is, eat less high-protein food; for babies who are mixed with formula milk or bottle-fed, they should switch to formula milk with small molecule hydrolyzed protein to improve the baby's indigestion of large molecule milk protein in ordinary milk powder.

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