Because breast milk is rich in oligosaccharides, it can fully stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, so most babies will not have hard stools, and there will be no obvious odor, which is golden yellow and occasionally slightly green; Or ointment-like, uniform, sour, no foam. The frequency of defecation of breast-fed babies is very flexible, generally 2-5 times a day in the neonatal period. With the growth of children's age, the frequency of defecation will gradually decrease, and the frequency of defecation for children of 2-3 months will decrease to 1-2 times a day. Therefore, it is normal for breast-fed babies to have loose stools and frequent defecation. As long as the baby is in good mental and breastfeeding condition, the weight gain is normal, and there is no difficulty in defecation, abdominal pain or flatulence, parents do not have to worry.
Experts remind-this is not a bad "stink": breastfeeding newborns may even defecate 7-8 times a day, so parents don't have to worry. This is called physiological diarrhea, which is a normal phenomenon. When the baby grows to a certain period, this diarrhea will disappear automatically.
B. Artificial feeding of infants (khaki hard paste stool)
Babies fed with formula milk have less stools, which are generally dry, rough and slightly hard as paste, but it doesn't matter as long as it is not difficult to solve, unlike sheep manure. If there is no problem with digestion, it will generally be khaki or golden yellow, slightly sour, about once a day 1 ~ 2 times.
Experts warn that this is not a bad "bad smell": children who drink formula milk sometimes have green or turquoise stools. This is because the iron content in formula milk is very high. When the baby does not fully absorb the iron in the milk powder, the excess iron will turn the stool green. This is normal. It's not that the older generation says that children's stools are green. Is to be frightened and cause gastrointestinal discomfort.
Stool after eating complementary food (darker color)
The baby began to add complementary food from 4 months. With the increase in the number and types of complementary foods, the baby's defecation began to gradually approach adults and began to darken.
Experts remind-this is not a bad "stink": babies who eat more fruits and vegetables will have fluffy stools. If you are a child who eats a lot of fish, meat, milk and eggs, the stool will stink because of protein's digestion.
The capture of bad "smelly"
Familiar with the normal "odor" of the above baby, it is easy to identify abnormal stool. Generally speaking, the change of defecation frequency and color can't explain anything, but the smell and moisture content in feces may explain many problems, such as the bad "stink" that hides hidden dangers and indicates disease.
Bad "smelly" 1- abnormal amniotic fluid in mom's stomach
B-ultrasound showed turbid amniotic fluid in the mother's abdomen, and sampling showed turbid body. It shows that the fetus has discharged meconium from amniotic fluid, which is not a good thing. It is most likely caused by fetal hypoxia and suffocation.
Countermeasures: check regularly and pay attention to abnormal fetal movement before labor.
Bad "stink" 2-Newborns don't defecate for 24 hours
Full-term newborns have not discharged meconium within 24 hours after birth.
Countermeasure: Ask the doctor to check whether the child has congenital malformation of digestive tract.
Bad "smelly" 3- newborn's gray stool
The baby has a gray or clay stool since birth, and it has never been yellow, but the urine is yellow.
Countermeasures: inform the doctor quickly, which is probably caused by congenital biliary obstruction. Delayed diagnosis and treatment can lead to permanent liver damage.
Bad "smelly" 4- bean curd residue
The stool is thin, yellow-green, with mucus, sometimes like bean curd residue.
Countermeasures: this may be fungal enteritis, and the baby with fungal enteritis will also have thrush. If the child has the above symptoms, he needs to go to the hospital.
Bad "smelly" 5 eggs drop soup stool
Stool 5 ~ 10 times a day, which contains more undigested milk lumps and generally has no mucus.
Coping measures: more common in children who eat milk or milk powder. If it is breast-feeding, then continue, without changing the feeding method or reducing the amount and frequency of milk, it will naturally return to normal. If it is mixed or artificial feeding, it is necessary to adjust the diet structure appropriately. You can add more water to the milk powder to dilute the milk, or you can feed some sugary salt water appropriately, and you can also reduce the amount of feeding each time and increase the number of feeding. If the stool is still abnormal after 2 ~ 3 days, please consult a doctor.
Bad "smelly" 6- green poop
Feces are few and many, showing green mucus.
Countermeasures: This situation is often caused by insufficient feeding. This kind of stool is also called "hungry stool"-your baby is not full, as long as you give enough nutrition, the stool will turn normal.
Smelly seven-bubble stool
The stool is thin, there is a lot of foam in the stool, and it has obvious sour taste.
Countermeasures: Proper adjustment of diet structure can return to normal. Before adding complementary food, the baby has yellow foamy stool, indicating that there is more sugar in milk, so the sugar should be reduced appropriately and the milk quantity should be increased. The baby who has started to add complementary food has brown foam stool, which is because there is too much starch in food, such as rice paste and baby cake. It is caused by indigestion of sugar in food. Reduce or stop these foods.
Bad "smelly" 8- rotten egg poop
Shit smells like rotten eggs.
Countermeasure: This is to remind the baby of indigestion caused by excessive intake of protein or protein. Pay attention to whether the milk concentration is too high and whether you eat too much. We can dilute the milk properly or limit the milk quantity 1 ~ 2 days. If you have added egg yolk, fish and other complementary foods to your child, you can consider temporarily stopping adding such complementary foods and gradually adding them after your baby's stool returns to normal. You can also give your baby some multivitamin preparations to help digestion.
Bad "smelly" 9- greasy stool
Feces are light yellow, liquid, abundant, shiny like oil, and can slide on diapers or bedpans like oil beads.
Countermeasure: This means that there is too much fat in food, which is more common in artificially fed babies. It is necessary to add sugar properly or temporarily switch to low-fat milk (but it should be noted that low-fat milk cannot be eaten as a normal diet for a long time).
Bad "stink" 10- separation of water and feces
The water in the feces increased and became soup-like. The water was separated from the feces, and the frequency and amount of defecation increased.
Countermeasures: this is a pathological manifestation, which is more common in enteritis, autumn diarrhea and other diseases. Losing a lot of water and electrolyte will cause dehydration or electrolyte disorder in children. You should take your child to the hospital immediately and pay attention to the disinfection of baby utensils.
Bad "smelly"-11bloody stool
There are many manifestations of blood in the stool, usually the stool is red or dark brown, or accompanied by bloodshot, blood clots, blood mucosa and so on.
Countermeasures: First of all, it depends on whether the child is given iron or a lot of iron-containing food, such as pseudo-hematochezia caused by animal liver blood. If the stool is thin, contains more mucus or mixed with bloodshot, and the baby cries when defecating, it is necessary to consider whether it is infectious diarrhea caused by bacillary dysentery or other pathogens, and go to the hospital in time. If the stool is like red bean soup, the color is dark red and accompanied by stench, it may be hemorrhagic necrotizing enteritis; If the stool is jam color, it may be intussusception; If the stool is tar black, it may be upper gastrointestinal bleeding; If it is bright red bloody stool, it probably means that the blood comes from rectum or anus. In short, blood can't be ignored, and all the above situations need to go to the hospital for treatment immediately.
Bad "smelly" 12- sheep manure
Baby's stool is dry and granular.
Countermeasures: Generally speaking, artificially fed babies are more prone to constipation than breast-fed babies. We don't judge whether a child is constipated by pulling once every few days or several times a day. One of the most important indicators is whether the baby's stool is hard, which is also commonly known as sheep manure. Is constipation.
Constipation should be treated according to the situation: for breast-fed constipation babies, sugar water or orange juice can be given (but breast-fed babies are rarely constipated); If the child is eating formula milk powder, during the two feeding periods, feed more boiled water and add some juice or rice soup to stimulate intestinal peristalsis (choosing formula milk powder containing oligosaccharides can also help prevent constipation); 4-month-old babies can add some mashed vegetables and fruits; For older constipation babies, parents should encourage them to eat more cellulose-rich vegetables and cereals.
In addition to diet therapy to correct constipation, you can also cooperate with massage: gently rub the baby's abdomen from left to right with your palm as the center, rest for 5 minutes 10 lap, and then massage 10 lap, and repeat for 3 times.
You can also help the baby to do toilet exercise: let the baby lie on his back, grab the baby's legs and do flexion and extension exercises, that is, extend and bend once each, *** 10 times, and then extend and bend one leg 10 times. Increasing outdoor activities and doing more exercise can promote intestinal peristalsis and make the stool unobstructed.
If the baby has intractable constipation and the above treatment is ineffective, please ask the doctor for further examination and treatment. Because constipation may also be the manifestation of other diseases, such as Hirschsprung's disease, anal disease, thyroid dysfunction and so on.
How to make a good "smelly" keep up with the baby?
1. Develop the habit of regular defecation.
Healthy babies usually defecate on time every day, especially after feeding in the morning. At this time, the child's mood is stable and it is easy to concentrate on defecation. Therefore, at this time of the day, parents can help the baby identify the information that he wants to defecate through the visual language of "mm-hmm" and form a conditioned reflex. Baby 1 year-old, you can teach him to sit in the basin for half an hour after breakfast.
2. When the baby can't defecate, don't sit in the basin for a long time, let alone let him sit in the basin to play or read.
Because in the case of distraction, children are not easy to defecate, and sitting in the basin for a long time is easy to cause some weak children to proctoptosis. It is advisable to sit in the basin for 5 ~ 10 minutes each time, but not too many times a day. As long as the spirit and appetite are good, the weight gain is normal, and the stool is not dry, then even if the child defecates 1 time within 2 ~ 3 days, no special treatment is needed.
3. Give your baby time.
The baby can really control his own urine and urine until he is one and a half to two years old. The previous period of reflex defecation and urination should not be hard. If the baby is crying and refuses to pull or refuses to pull after 5 minutes, divert your attention from him, so that this unpleasantness will pass quickly. Come again next time.
4. Let children accept, not refuse.
Help children understand their own bodies, so that children feel that every part of their bodies is good and useful, and their physiological functions are natural and normal, which is beneficial to their physical and mental health throughout their lives. Instead of using the words "I didn't shit again today" and "I didn't shit, bacteria and dirt are left in your stomach" to lead to the baby's bad psychological hint: I can't shit, I am unhealthy. If children are excluded from physical and physiological functions, it will affect their body concept and even sexual concept when they grow up.
5. Attention requires skill.
Children experts point out that if children's stool problems are given more special attention than other things, children will take this opportunity to resist, passively resist, or fool people around them. The more natural and stress-free methods are, the better for children's body and mind.
I hope it is useful for the baby, and I wish the baby health!