Green stool with mucus

The appearance of a green stool in a baby worries many mothers. A baby’s stool that eats the mixture is different from a baby’s stool that eats breast milk: it’s darker, rarer, thicker, and smells bad. In other words, it resembles adult stool.

If the baby has green stool

Breast-fed babies often stain the diaper, the stool is bright yellow, or slightly darker, without any unpleasant odor. The consistency of the stool, whether homogeneous or not, may contain curdled grains. If you leave the diaper for a while, you can see that gradually its color changes to green. This is a variant of the norm and should not bother parents. The cause of the greenish shade of feces can also be bilirubin, which is gradually excreted from the body with feces.

Also, if the baby has green stool, it depends on the mother’s nutrition. If the mother eats green food - spinach, parsley and dill, broccoli - this can affect the color of the baby's stool. The same applies to the crumbs that already receive vegetables - after a good portion of broccoli for lunch, the baby go to the diaper with a mass of greenish color.

If the baby has green stool with foam, need to tell the doctor about it. Such a chair is a sign that the baby receives only "front" milk. This food is more liquid and less fat than milk, which the baby gradually sucks after 3-5 minutes at the breast. Such food is dangerous because the crumbs do not have enough lactase (it is produced in the body by the crumbs in a relatively small amount), the gases begin to torment him, and the contents of the diaper become green and foamy.

The mother of such a baby can be advised to establish proper breastfeeding: do not remove the breast too quickly. In addition, sometimes there are cases when the mother’s breast produces a large amount of milk, the child simply does not have time to get to the back milk, which is more fat, eats up. In this case, experts advise giving less breastfeeding when feeding. And finally, in the event of lactase deficiency, which can not be managed with the measures described above, the pediatrician prescribes special enzymes that must be diluted in breast milk and given at the beginning of feeding. Before this, the pediatrician will ask for special tests. Thus, the appearance of green stool in an infant can be a sign of lactase deficiency.

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In the stool of a baby, mucus

The presence of a green stool with mucus in a baby can become one of the signs of dysbiosis. In addition to green stools, parents can notice skin rashes, the baby can be disturbed by colic, sleep disturbance, he can become restless. If the infant has green stool with mucus, as well as bloody fragments - this is an occasion to immediately call the doctor’s phone and consult. More details about dysbiosis…

The greens in the stool of the baby, which feeds on the mixture, may appear from the fact that this mixture is not suitable for the child. It should be changed (of course, under the supervision of a pediatrician) and pay attention to the reaction of the child's body. Another possible cause of greens is the iron found in some mixtures.

So, the main thing is not the color of the chair, but the baby’s well-being. If a baby has green stools and at the same time he is active, cheerful, does not suffer from pains in his stomach, then most likely nothing bad will happen. If the child is sluggish, often cries, spits up a lot, sleep is disturbed - it is worth telling the paramedic about this, as a green tint can mean a serious illness. The green color in the stool and the foam is also an occasion to check with the doctor whether everything is in order ..

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