What baby's bowel movements are considered a normal variant. Why you shouldn't panic at the sight of mucus, loose stools, and undigested complementary foods
With the advent of the baby in the house, the topic of "baby poop" moves from the category of jokes about eternal mother's concern to the section of reasons for constant concern. Moms carefully control the contents of the diaper and are ready to sound the alarm at the slightest deviation from the norm. But this norm for babies varies greatly. The category of "normal stool" in infants includes many very different, sometimes even frightening manifestations. What should not be afraid of in a baby diaper and what fragments of a baby chair should not be treated with sorbents and probiotics, the pediatrician said on her Telegram channel Tatiana Denisova
Somehow it happened that it is the children's chair that is considered an indicator of the health of the child. Mom is calm only when the baby goes to the toilet properly and "rightly". However, pediatrician Tatyana Denisova advises paying more attention to the general condition of the child and normal weight gain. Under these conditions, many "scary" things have every right to be quietly present in the children's chair.
The contents of the diaper often bother mom in vain / istockphoto.com
Undigested inclusions
Withdrawal first feeding in its "original form", pieces of vegetables and even cheesy inclusions (especially if the baby loves to eat very much) - this is an absolute norm in children of the first year of life. There are no teeth in the baby's stomach. Therefore, if he swallows pieces of food, they naturally come out almost intact.
However, this does not mean at all that the baby is not yet ready for adult food. Do not put off complementary foods and even more give him enzymes. If, in addition, nothing bothers you in the baby (he feels good and gains weight well), calmly close the diaper and continue to introduce the baby to new products.
Lumps of mucus
Mucous inclusions in a child's stool often become a reason to suspect dysbiosis in a child. In this case, many doctors send feces for analysis and almost certainly find there some kind of horror such as staphylococcus or other pathogenic bacteria. Tatyana Denisova recommends not to overuse analyzes and save your nerves: if you sow even the most "Healthy" baby stool into a nutrient medium, there will certainly be divorced and staphylococci, and even intestinal sticks.
Mucus in the feces of an infant can appear for two completely logical reasons. First, it may be saliva, which is poorly digested in babies. The second is simply bits of undigested food that the intestines envelop with mucus to facilitate excretion. In each of these cases, mucus in the baby's stool is considered a normal option. Therefore (again, provided that the baby is gaining weight well and feels normal), panic will be superfluous here.
Loose stools
For a breastfed baby loose stools Is the norm. Even if it seems to the mother that the baby goes to the toilet with practically water. Such "water" may well be of any color - from yellow-green to dark brown. And this is also normal, provided that the child is not worried about anything. The only thing you need to try to track the volume of liquid feces. Diarrhea and the risks of dehydration of the child's body can only be talked about if it is more than 100 ml per kilogram of the child's body weight.
Carbohydrates in feces
Very often, in the analysis of feces in infants, "extra" carbohydrates may appear. This phenomenon is considered to be a sign lactase deficiency. If the amount of carbohydrates is much higher than the norm (0.25%), the mother is advised to give up breastfeeding and transfer the baby to a lactose-free formula. However, Tatyana Denisova says that the carbohydrate content in the baby's feces is an indirect sign of lactose intolerance. If the child does not suffer from diarrhea, does not suffer from bloating and abdominal pain and gains weight well, carbohydrates in the stool (even if there are many of them) have the right to life.
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