The appearance of a baby in the house leads to the appearance of various problems related to the development and health of the child. When a green stool is found, parents panic. To understand the problem, it is necessary to establish the causes.
Causes of green stool in newborns
During the first year, the child's digestive organs and other systems of the body are formed, therefore, stool disorders or discoloration is not a pathology. As a rule, intestinal bacteria cannot cope with the incoming volume of food.
For the first 5-7 days, meconium leaves the child's body, which later turns into normal feces.
What causes the stool to turn greenish in a child after the fifth day after birth? Follow the baby's behavior carefully to determine the correct cause.
If, with a green stool, the child behaves calmly, eats, sleeps, the color of the feces depends on the food that the nursing woman ate. For example, there are a lot of green foods in the diet. To prevent this from happening, you should very carefully choose your food, since the baby's intestines are not sufficiently developed, so the body reacts to the smallest changes.
The second reason for green stools is the mother's liquid and low-fat milk. In this case, the feces become more liquid consistency without a pungent odor. With excessively fat milk, the feces become mustard-brownish, constipation may appear.
If the child is artificially fed, a change in the color and structure of feces is associated with a change in nutrition. The mixture may have been selected incorrectly. It is necessary to try a different species and monitor the health of the newborn.
Very often, when switching from breastfeeding to artificial feeding, a change in the color of feces occurs.
Dark green stools are a sign of insufficient absorption of iron by the body. With oxidative reactions, feces are stained.
Green stools are a sign of illness
Often, green stools are a symptom of a medical condition:
- with a cold or a viral illness with a high fever, the feces change color;
- with dysbiosis, feces can be painted in almost any color, a pungent smell of rot appears, foam or blood fragments form;
- with lactase deficiency.
As a rule, staining the stool green with no other signs of concern is quite common in a growing body. If green stools are accompanied by colic, abdominal pain, anxiety of the baby, skin rashes, sleep disturbances, you should immediately be tested to establish an accurate diagnosis.
