What's wrong with the baby's green and watery stool?

When a baby is just born, his stool is golden yellow. For breastfed babies, the stool will turn yellow or yellow-green as they grow older. This is normal. The stool of babies who are fed with milk powder is yellow-green. After adding complementary foods, the stool will turn yellow-brown. This is normal as long as the baby does not cry. If a baby's stool is green and very watery, it is mostly due to indigestion and poorly developed gastrointestinal function. Sometimes, the baby may have green foamy stools if he drinks cold air. These are normal and there is no need to worry too much.

If your baby has green stools, it is because of indigestion and low immunity, which causes gastrointestinal dysfunction. If your baby has started to eat complementary foods, you can steam the carrots and feed them to your baby. Carrots have the effect of solidifying the stool. If your baby has not started to eat complementary foods, do not feed him. It is recommended to supplement your baby with bovine colostrum and probiotics. Colostrum is extracted from cow's colostrum, which is rich in immunoglobulin and is very helpful in improving the baby's resistance. Probiotics can maintain the balance of intestinal flora.

You can try it. You can also take your baby's stool to the hospital for testing to see what the cause is - mainly viral and bacterial. Bacterial cases can be treated with medicine, but viral cases don't seem to be treated with medicine. If you don't want to take your baby to the hospital, you can get a clean container at home (cleanliness is very important), collect the stool when your baby defecates, and then rush to the hospital for testing. It would be better to send the child to a specialized children's hospital. Based on the test results, the doctor will advise you on what to do.

The stools of a normally breastfed baby may occasionally be light green. If your baby's stool is dark green, it is a sign of indigestion.

The cause of indigestion may be that the mother has eaten irritating or too cold food. In addition, the mother's emotional tension and anxiety can also affect the child's bowel movements. When the stool is acidic, the bile contained in it oxidizes into green when exposed to air. Bilirubin in bile is a yellow pigment that makes feces yellow. After oxidation, bilirubin turns into biliverdin, which makes feces green. When the excreted feces encounter oxygen in the air in the diaper, the bilirubin is oxidized into biliverdin, making the surface of the feces green. In addition, due to the action of Lactobacillus bifidum, the intestines have become acidic, and the stool has been oxidized in the intestines, turning green and being excreted from the body. Therefore, green stool is not abnormal, it is a normal phenomenon and there is no need to worry about it.

The cause of diarrhea can be preliminarily determined from the characteristics of the baby's stool. The following are some abnormal stools and their possible causes: 1. Green stools with a small amount of mucus and increased stool frequency, which often indicates hyperperistalsis, which is seen when hungry.

2. The stool is foamy and contains grayish-white soap-like substances, indicating fat indigestion.

3. Stool smells sour and has a lot of foam, indicating poor digestion of sugars

4. Stools that smell bad and are not formed indicate increased protein decay

5. Green or yellow stool, egg drop soup-like, often indicates improper diet or extraintestinal infection

6. Watery stools with frequent bowel movements are often caused by viral enteritis.