First, the color of baby's stool is 1, and mixed feeding is light brown. Insufficient breast milk, when milk and starch food are added, the stool is yellow or light brown, soft and smelly, 1 ~ 3 times a day.
2, dark green meconium newborns will discharge dark green sticky feces within one day after birth, called meconium. In the womb, this substance fills the intestines of the fetus, but it will be excreted soon after birth.
3. Artificial feeding of soil ash For infants fed with milk or goat's milk, the stool is light yellow or soil gray, uniform and hard paste, often mixed with milk flaps and protein clots, which is thicker and slightly smelly than breast-fed infants, 1 ~ 2 times a day.
You can judge your health from the color of your baby's stool. 4, milk powder feeding yellow If you choose to feed milk powder to the newborn, his feces will turn green first and then yellow. When feeding 30 ~ 60 ml formula milk powder to newborns, they may defecate after each feeding, about 6 times a day.
5. Breast-fed golden baby's stool is golden yellow, occasionally slightly green and thin; Or ointment-like, uniform, sour, no foam. Usually in the neonatal period, the frequency of defecation is more, usually 2-5 times a day, but some babies will defecate 7-8 times a day.
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Second, other reasons for stool color 1, bile secretion affects bile secretion, which will make the stool yellow-green. The longer the stool is in the intestine, the longer the enteric bacteria acts, and the darker the color.
2. It may come from food. For example, if the baby eats a lot of carrots, the stool will turn red. If you eat more green vegetables, your stool will be green. These are all normal phenomena.
3, the pH of food, acidic poop color is yellow, alkaline is brown. Therefore, babies who eat breast milk generally have golden poop, while babies who eat milk powder have dark brown poop.
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Third, the treatment of abnormal stool characteristics 1, the impact of iron-containing foods If your baby has intestinal bleeding, see if you have given your child iron supplements or a lot of iron-containing foods, such as fake bloody stools caused by animal liver blood.
2. The stool of children suffering from cholera is rice-washed water, and there is no abdominal pain during defecation. The baby will soon have symptoms such as dehydration, convulsions and shock. Children are more prone to cholera, so they must go to the hospital immediately to avoid delaying their illness.
3. Inadequate feeding leads to less feces and more times, which is green and sticky. This situation is often caused by insufficient feeding, and this kind of stool is also called hungry stool. As long as you give enough feeding, your stool can turn normal.
4, bacillary dysentery stool becomes thinner and contains more mucus or mixed with blood, and the baby cries when defecating. Should consider whether it is infectious diarrhea caused by bacillary dysentery or other pathogens, and should go to the hospital in time.
5, bile duct obstruction stool is white or muddy, accompanied by jaundice, itching and other symptoms. The first consideration is biliary obstruction, so we should go to the hospital for further examination and treatment in time. Delayed diagnosis and treatment can lead to permanent liver damage.