What's the matter with the milk curd in the baby's stool?

During breastfeeding, the baby's physical fitness is relatively poor, especially the digestive system is relatively poor, and it is particularly prone to gastrointestinal diseases. Many mothers have found that their baby's stool contains curds, which are white particles and curd-like substances in the stool. Many mothers don’t know how to deal with this situation. So, what's the matter with the milk curds in the stool of a one-month-old baby?

First, why do one-month-old babies have curds in their stool? The shape of normal stool is related to the feeding method. The stools of breastfed babies are golden yellow, occasionally slightly green and relatively thin; or they are ointment-like, uniform, sour and without foam. Normally, the neonatal period has more bowel movements, usually 2-5 times a day, but some babies may have 7-8 bowel movements a day. As the child grows older, the frequency of bowel movements will gradually decrease, and after 2-3 months the frequency of bowel movements will be reduced to 1-2 times a day. Therefore, if a breastfed baby has looser stools or more frequent bowel movements, parents do not need to worry as long as the baby is in good spirits, is feeding well, and is gaining weight normally. If the baby is fed formula, the stool is usually light yellow or khaki, dry, rough, like a hard paste, and often has an unpleasant fecal odor. If there is more sugar in the milk, the stool may become soft and have a slightly rotten odor, and the amount of stool will be larger each time. Sometimes there is grayish white "milk curds" mixed in the 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 caused by 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, the 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 do not exceed the size of 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.

Why does a one-month-old baby have milk curds in his stool? It is normal if this happens when you first start adding milk powder, but if it still exists after a week, you need to change 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.

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