"The baby pulled a lot of milk flaps today, will it have anything to do with me eating two eggs at once?"
"After 4 days of pulling the flap, I lost 1 and a half pounds, what's going on?"
Babies have flaps every time they, and they're all thin, is it diarrhea?
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What is the reason why there are milk flaps in the baby's pull?
Generally speaking, babies of different ages, the poop pulled is also different, and the life schedule and diet will affect the shape of the baby's poop. Therefore, understanding what is normal stool is the homework that every mother has to do.
Neonatal period
At this time, the baby will discharge a black sticky stool in the first 2-3 days of birth, which is the fetal stool.
Whether it's formula feeding or breast milk, it's the same. After 3-5 days of birth, the fetal stool will gradually turn into yellow soft stools.
For breastfed babies, there will be stools after almost every feeding, basically 5-10 times a day, and a small number of flaps will appear.
Milk powder fed baby, stool in 1-3 times a day, if the milk powder added iron, especially amino acid milk powder or hydrolyzed protein milk powder, the stool will be green.
Before the age of 1
After the full moon, the baby has about 1-3 times of normal bowel movements a day, and occasionally once every 3 days is normal, and the stool at this time is soft, yellow or green are normal.
Breastfed babies have thick stools, like pumpkin paste, and milk powder babies have drier poop, similar to peanut butter.
After 1 year old
After the baby is 1 year old, the number of bowel movements is similar to that of infancy, but the stool will gradually become a soft strip, the color is yellow or brown, and such stools are normal.
Therefore, it is normal if the baby pulls a small amount of flaps in the stool.
This is because the baby's digestive system is not perfect enough, coupled with the rapid peristalsis of the intestine, the milk drunk into the stomach is not fully digested and absorbed, which leads to the presence of a small amount of milk flaps in the pulled stool.
As long as the stool has no obvious odor or abnormal color, and it develops normally, there is no need to intervene. The flap will gradually disappear as your baby grows older.
If there are particularly many or sudden increases in flaps in your baby's stools, but there is no diarrhea, it may be related to the following factors:
Overfeeding
Many parents do not know how much milk to feed the baby is appropriate, nor can they refer to the amount of milk that other babies drink, after all, the amount of food for each baby is different, especially when some babies cry, the mother will immediately feed, it is easy to overfeed.
Problems with breastfeeding mothers' own diet
Because the baby's intestinal digestive function is not mature, the breastfeeding mother eats too many high-protein foods in the diet, such as milk, eggs, seafood, etc., the baby's stomach can not be fully digested, and there will be many flaps.
Pure formula for babies
Ordinary conventional formula contains a certain amount of milk protein, it takes a certain amount of time to decompose, the baby does not digest so fast, and it will also form a milk flap.
Take calcium
When calcium enters the intestine, if combined with fat, it will form a white calcium soap that is insoluble in water, and these calcium soaps are also granular or flocculent like the milk flap after being excreted with the stool. In this case, you need to take your baby to the hospital for consultation to see if you need additional calcium supplementation.
In addition to the above reasons, if there is an unexplained white lump in the stool, it may be an indigestible food. For example, almonds, white sesame seeds, high-fiber vegetables, etc., these foods usually take 30-40 hours to excrete.
If the baby is not unwell, parents do not need to worry, as long as they do not eat these foods, the white lump will basically disappear in a few days.
There is also eating too much greasy, high-fat food, which will also make some poop look pale and smelly, and may cause the baby to have an increase in the number of bowel movements, abdominal pain, vomiting and so on. It is recommended to suspend the intake of greasy food for your baby, and after a light diet, it will return to normal.
However, if the white substance of the baby's feces is mucus-like, it is necessary to be alert to bacterial infections, and if it is tofu slag or a small piece of white substance, it may be a fungal infection.
If the baby has fever, abdominal pain, vomiting and other symptoms at the same time, it is necessary to seek medical diagnosis in time.
In addition to the above reasons, the baby is infected with parasites, or has an inflammatory bowel disease, may also cause a white lumpy substance in the stool, if the mother can not distinguish and deal with, it is recommended to go to the hospital to consult a doctor.
In general, most of the poop has a milk flap is basically a normal situation, as long as the above 4 factors are treated according to the symptoms, provided that the baby can eat normally, have good spirits, and have no physical discomfort.
After excluding the above factors, it is not possible to see what is the white substance of unknown reasons, so it is necessary to send it to the hospital in time for the doctor to make a judgment.