What is the reason for sour stool?

If the stool has a sour taste, you should pay attention to understand the reasons causing it, especially for some infants and young children's stool, parents should pay attention to the shape observation, because the shape of the stool can be used to understand whether the child is affected by some diseases. The following will introduce to parents the reasons for the different shapes of baby's stool. I hope parents can deal with it correctly.

1. Foamy stool

Eating too much starch or sugary food can increase the fermentation of food in the intestine, and the resulting stool will be dark brown, watery and foamy.

2. Foul-smelling stool

When babies eat too much protein-rich food, the protein can neutralize the gastric acid in the stomach, thus reducing the acidity of the gastric juice and making it impossible for the protein to be fully digested and absorbed. Coupled with the decomposition and metabolism of bacteria in the intestinal cavity, the stools of these babies are often very smelly.

3. Shiny stool

When you eat too much fat, too much fatty acid will be produced in the intestinal cavity, which will stimulate the intestinal mucosa and increase intestinal peristalsis, resulting in light yellow liquid and larger stools. Sometimes the stools are shiny and can even slide in the toilet bowl.

4. Green stool

If the stool is green, small in amount, and contains a lot of mucus, it is hunger-induced diarrhea. In addition, some children who are fed formula milk have dark green feces. The reason is that a certain amount of iron is added to formula milk. After the iron passes through the digestive tract and comes into contact with the air, it turns dark green.

5. Egg Drop Soup-like Stool

Young patients with viral enteritis and pathogenic Escherichia coli enteritis often have egg drop soup-like stools.

6. Grayish-white stool

Patients with bile duct obstruction caused by various reasons will excrete grayish white stools. Medically it is called clay-colored stool. In addition, if you consume too much milk or too little sugar, the fatty acids produced will combine with the minerals calcium and magnesium in the food to form fat soaps, and the feces may also appear grayish white, hard, and have a foul odor.