Mixed feeding of baby's stool
Release time : 03/13/2025 09:30:01
The stool of mixed feeding babies is different from that of breastfed babies. However, mothers need not panic about the various stools presented by their babies.
For babies experiencing various types of abnormal stools, each symptom reflects a corresponding issue! Mothers can adjust their diet based on the baby's stool.
The stools of a mixed-fed baby are different from those of a breastfed baby. However, mothers need not be panicked by the various types of stools shown by their babies.
For babies with various abnormal bowel movements, each symptom reflects a corresponding issue! Mothers can adjust their diet according to the baby's bowel movements.
Infants fed a combination of breast milk and cow's milk have similar stools to those fed only with cow's milk, but are more yellowish and softer.
After the addition of cereals, eggs, meat, and vegetables as complementary foods, the feces are similar to those of an adult, occurring once daily.
In the absence of changes in food quantity or type, an increase in the frequency and dilution of baby's stools should be considered abnormal.
1. Puffy stools: When individuals consume an excess of starches or sugars, their bowel content can increase fermentation, resulting in a dark brown liquid-like stool with foam.
2. Strangely Smelly Diarrhea: When a child is overly picky about protein-rich foods, the proteins can neutralize stomach acid, thereby reducing the acidity of the gastric juices and hindering the complete digestion and absorption of proteins. Additionally, due to the breakdown metabolism by intestinal bacteria, the baby's stool often has an unusually foul odor.
3. Luminous stools: When consumed an excessive amount of fat, the presence of excess fatty acids in the intestinal lumen stimulates the intestinal mucosa, leading to increased peristalsis in the intestines. This results in a light yellow liquid-like stool that is more abundant and sometimes shiny, which can even slide within the toilet bowl.
4. Green stool: If the stool is green, and there is less volume and more mucus in the feces, it indicates starvation diarrhea.
In addition, some formula-fed infants may have dark green stools. This is because most formulas contain iron, which, when exposed to air in the digestive tract, turns into a dark green color.
5. Cotton-like stools: Infectious diarrhea, including viral enteritis and bacteremia due to pathogenic Escherichia coli, often presents with cotton-like stools in young children.
6. Soggy stools: This is often seen in enteritis caused by fungi.
7. Water-like stools: more common in food poisoning and acute enteritis.
8. Grayish-white stools: Patients with biliary tract obstruction caused by various reasons will expel grayish-white stools.
Medically called clay colored stool.
In addition, if you eat too much milk or too little sugar, the fatty acids produced combine with the minerals calcium and magnesium in the food to form fat soap. The feces can also appear grayish-white, hard, and accompanied by a foul smell.
9. Tall-like stool: Due to bleeding in the upper digestive tract or small intestine and staying in the intestine for a long time, after the destruction of red blood cells, hemoglobin combines with sulfide in the intestine to form ferrous sulfide, so the stool is black; Also because ferrous sulfide stimulates the intestinal mucosa to secrete more mucus, making the stool black and shiny, it is called tarn-like stool, and is more common in bleeding caused by gastric and duodenal ulcers and chronic gastritis.
Love reminder: Normal people can also turn feces black when eating foods with high iron such as animal blood and pig liver; taking medicines such as bismuth, charcoal powder and certain traditional Chinese medicines can also turn feces black, but they are generally grayish black and dull. A negative occult blood test can help identification.
10. Bright red bloody stool: The blood is bright red and does not mix with the stool. It only adheres to the surface of the stool or blood drips or sprays out after defecation, indicating anal or anal diseases, such as hemorrhoids, anal fissures, intestinal polyps and bleeding caused by rectal tumors.
11. Jame-like stools: Dark red jam stools are seen in intussusception; dark red jam like purulent bloody stools are seen in amoebic dysentery.
12. Mucopurous bloody stools: Common in bacterial diarrhea and Campylobacter jejuni enteritis.
13. Bloody diarrhea with meat-like odor: accompanied by a unique foul odor, is observed in acute hemorrhagic necrotizing enteritis.
The normal color of the stool in a baby fed mixedly can be determined by understanding the normal colors of the baby's stool. Once this is understood, mothers will have the necessary reference when analyzing the baby's stool color.
Please note the color of the baby's stool when mixed-feeding.
1. Newborn Feces - Dark Green: The newborn's stool is dark green, and it will be passed within 6 to 12 hours after birth.
Meconium usually lacks odor, has a sticky consistency, and is dark green in color. It primarily consists of the amniotic fluid and fetal secretions swallowed by the fetus during gestation. 2. During the transition period, stool - yellow-green, as it is being cleared from meconium to normal stool, the stool becomes yellow-green.
Most newborns exhibit this stage of diarrhea after 2-3 days of breastfeeding, and gradually transition into the normal yellow stage.
3. The stool after eating complementary food-the color is darker. The baby has been adding complementary food since the age of 6 months. As the number and types of complementary food increase, the baby's stool quality gradually approaches that of adults and begins to become darker.
Sometimes it's related to food colors, and mom has to worry.
Mixed-fed babies generally defecate once or twice a day. If the number of defecations increases, there is no abdominal distension or anorexia, and does not affect growth and development, it is normal to have 2-3 defecations or more times a day. If the older baby is 2 years old, defecation is already very regular, 1-2 times a day. If the increase is caused by factors such as indigestion.
Sometimes the baby poops too often, so it is necessary to check and test the stool to see if it is indigestion or enteritis in the child.
Also pay attention to whether there is intestinal dysfunction caused by a cold.
If it is indigestion, it is recommended to take Shanmai Jianpi Oral Liquid, Smecta, etc. orally. If it is serious, see a doctor for infusion treatment.
When mixed feeding, sometimes the baby's bowel movements are more frequent. Under this situation, mothers can initially analyze and diagnose the baby's condition by looking at the color and dispersion of the stool, and accordingly treat the baby according to the condition.
Mixed feeding of infants results in more frequent bowel movements, primarily due to indigestion.
There is a direct correlation with the baby's inherent spleen and stomach weakness.
In such cases, it is generally recommended that the baby be treated with medication to regulate the spleen and stomach, enhance digestion, and restore intestinal flora for optimal therapeutic effects.
If there is abdominal distension, it may be more effective to use topical medications.
Persist in massaging your baby daily, starting at the navel and moving in a clockwise spiral pattern outwards to promote gastrointestinal motility and aid digestion. Additionally, you may warm the baby's small tummy with heat, avoiding catching cold. Do not frequently switch formula milk; choose one that is suitable for your baby.
* The medical information provided in this text is for reference only.
In the event of discomfort, it is recommended to seek medical attention immediately for a precise diagnosis and treatment by a face-to-face medical examination.