How many times a day does a baby pull stool normally? The following kinds of abnormal stools should be vigilant!
1. How many times a day does a newborn baby have stools counted as normal?
Newborn babies have more stools, about 2 to 5 times a day, some 4 to 8 times, and the stools are dark green. This is because when the baby is still in the mother's belly, he swallows amniotic fluid, fetal fat, fetal hair, shedding epithelial cells and other substances, so the stool is dark green, we call this fetal stool.
Fetal stool is viscous and shiny, but generally odorless, and usually completed in 2 to 4 days. After that, the color of your baby's poop will vary depending on how you feed it.
2. How many times a day does a breastfeeding baby have stools?
In breastfed children, the stool is mostly uniform soft stool, occasionally small milk curds, golden yellow, but there is no obvious odor, but slightly sour.
Bowel movements 2 to 5 times a day, sometimes up to 7 to 8 times a day, then parents should not be too nervous, as long as the baby's mental state is good, weight gain is normal, it is physiological diarrhea. As your baby grows older, the number of bowel movements will gradually decrease, and it will decrease to 1 to 2 times a day at 2 to 3 months.
3. How many times a day is the milk powder baby's stool normal?
Milk-fed babies usually have more shaped stools and more milk curds. The stool is earthy yellow or golden yellow, sometimes yellow with green, mostly because the iron content in formula is high, and when the baby does not absorb iron completely, the stool will be green.
Compared with breastfed babies, babies who eat formula have fewer bowel movements, about 1 to 3 times a day, with a slightly sour odor, but no obvious odor.
4. How many times a day does a mixed-fed baby have a normal bowel movement?
Babies who drink both breast milk and milk powder, poop and milk powder fed babies are almost the same, light yellow or slightly darker are normal, but the stool may not be pure milk powder fed baby formation, the number of bowel movements per day will be different because of the proportion of milk powder and breast milk, but at least 1 to 3 times a day to defecate.
In the following cases, you should take your baby to the doctor in time:
1. The baby has not discharged the fetal stool 24 hours after birth.
2. The excreted stool is grayish white, coffee-colored, tarmac-colored, or with blood.
3. Frequent defecation once every 4 to 5 days or a sudden increase in the number of bowel movements.
4, the stool is a separate omelette soup of water and feces, the acid is aggravated, contains a large amount of indigestible milk, and even more sticky or bloody, but also mixed with baby crying, vomiting, fever, mental tiredness, bloating and so on.
The following kinds of abnormal stools should be vigilant
1. Newborns have gray stools
The baby pulls gray or clay colored stool from birth, there has been no yellow, but the urine is yellow, be alert to the possibility of biliary obstruction, this gray-white stool, in medicine called clay color stool.
In addition, eating too much milk powder or too little sugar, the fatty acids produced combine with the minerals calcium and magnesium in the food to form fat soap, and the stool can also appear grayish white, hard, and accompanied by a foul odor.
Recommendation: Seek medical attention as soon as possible to rule out congenital biliary obstruction. Delays in diagnosis and treatment can lead to permanent liver damage.
2. Green loose stool
Stool is small, frequent, and green mucus-like. This condition is often caused by inadequate feeding. Of course, some formula babies will be dark green, the reason is that the general formula milk is added to a certain amount of iron, which passes through the digestive tract and comes into contact with the air, it appears dark green.
Recommendation: This kind of stool is also called "hungry stool", to put it bluntly, your baby is not full, at this time, as long as you give enough nutrition, the stool can turn normal.
3. Egg flower soup (with milk petals)
Commonly found in milk-fed babies, who poop 5 to 10 times a day, contain more undigested milk lumps, and generally have no mucus.
Recommendation: The milk flap is that the baby does not digest protein, and the undigested protein and minerals in the food combine to form the flap. Breastfeeding babies, mothers should eat less high-protein foods, diet should not be too greasy, do not supplement calcium excess;
If your baby is mixed or formula-fed, dietary adjustments need to be adjusted appropriately. Dilute the milk powder and feed the baby with some water. At the same time, it is also possible to reduce the amount of milk per feeding and increase the number of feedings. If the stool is still abnormal after 2-3 days, you need to seek medical treatment.
4. Foamy stools
Stools are thin, with plenty of foam in the stools with a pronounced sour taste. This is the cause of too much starch or sugar food, so that the food in the intestinal lumen increases fermentation and produces foam, which is not a problem.
Recommendation: Adjust the diet appropriately to return to normal. The appearance of yellow foamy stools in infants before the addition of complementary foods indicates that the amount of sugar in the milk is too much, and the amount of sugar should be appropriately reduced to increase the amount of milk.
5. The stool is foul
The stool smells like rotten eggs. This is a sign of excessive protein intake, or protein indigestion. Nothing was wrong with it.
Recommendation: Pay attention to whether the milk concentration is too high, whether the intake is excessive, and the milk can be properly diluted or the milk amount can be limited for 1-2 days. If you have added egg yolks, fish and other complementary foods to your child, you can consider temporarily stopping the addition of such complementary foods and gradually adding them after the baby's stool returns to normal.
6, tofu residue
Stools are thin, yellow-green with mucus, and sometimes tofu-like.
Recommendation: Seek medical attention, which may be fungal enteritis, and babies with fungal enteritis will also suffer from thrush.
7. Oily stool (bright stool color)
The stool is pale yellow, liquid, abundant, shiny like oil, and can slide like oil beads on a diaper or in the potty. This means that there is too much fat in the food, and too much fatty acid will be produced in the intestinal lumen to stimulate the intestinal mucosa, so that the peristalsis of the intestines is increased, producing a yellowish liquid and a large amount of stool, which is common in milk-fed babies.
Recommendation: Temporarily switch to low-fat milk, but it should be noted that low-fat milk cannot be eaten as a normal diet for a long time.
8. Separation of water and stool
The water in the stool increases, it is soup-like, the water is separated from the stool, and the number and amount of defecation are increased. This is a pathological manifestation, most common in enteritis, autumn diarrhea and other diseases.
Recommendation: Take your child to the hospital immediately and pay attention to the disinfection of your baby's utensils. Losing a lot of water and electrolytes can cause your child to become dehydrated or have electrolyte abnormalities.
9. Constipation (granular stool)
The stool is dry and granular, laborious, or does not defecate for a long time.
It should be emphasized that do not pull once a few days or pull several times a day to determine whether the child is constipated, one of the most important constipation features is whether the baby's stool is hard knotted, like sheep. Some babies even have bowel movements every day, but the bowel movements are laborious and the stools are dry, which is also constipation.
Recommendation: Constipation should be handled according to the situation: for breastfed constipated babies, mothers should change their diet, do not eat greasy and spicy food, and feed the baby some water appropriately.
10. Bloody stools
Blood stools manifest in a variety of ways, usually red or black-brown stools, or with capillaries, blood clots, blood mucosa, etc.
Recommendation: First of all, you should see if your baby has been given iron or a lot of iron-containing foods, such as animal liver and blood caused by pseudo-blood in the stool.
If the stool is red bean soup-like, dark red in color and accompanied by a foul odor, it may be hemorrhagic necrotizing enteritis;
If the stool is jam-colored, it may be intussusception, and if it is bright red, it mostly indicates that the blood originated in the rectum or anus.
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