PART 1: Interpreting the "question mark" in baby's stool

The frequency and texture of baby's stool often reflect their digestive function. If parents can pay attention to observe the texture, color sample and frequency of baby's stool and correctly identify normal and abnormal stools, it will help to find the abnormality of baby's digestive tract at an early stage and provide valuable clues for diagnosing diseases.

Main points of normal stool observation

1, the main component of meconium is water, accounting for about 72%, which is composed of epithelial cells shed from fetal intestine, bile, concentrated digestive juice and swallowed amniotic fluid. Meconium is discharged for the first time within a few hours after birth (usually within 10 hour). It is dark green and a little shiny, much like asphalt dissolved by the scorching sun on the road in summer, and has no odor.

2. Breast-fed baby's feces are golden yellow, mostly uniform and mushy, with occasional small milk lumps and sour taste, 2_3 times a day. Even if the stool reaches 3_5 times a day, the stool does not contain too much water and is mushy, which can also be regarded as normal.

3. Artificial feeding of baby feces For babies fed with milk (including milk powder) and goat's milk, the feces are pale yellow, mostly irregular, containing more milk clots, alkaline or neutral, large in quantity and smelly, once a day 1_2 times.

4. Infant feces mixed feeding The feces of breast-fed people and breast-fed people are similar to those of breast-fed people, but they are yellow and soft. After adding complementary foods such as grain, eggs, meat and vegetables, the nature of feces is close to that of adults, once a day.

All kinds of abnormal stools

Without changing the amount and type of food, the sudden increase and thinning of the baby's stool frequency should be regarded as abnormal.

1, foamy stool

When eating too much starch or sugar food, it can increase the fermentation of food in the intestinal cavity and produce dark brown watery stool with foam.

2. Strange and smelly feces

Partial eclipse of food containing too much protein, these protein can neutralize the gastric acid in the stomach, thus reducing the acidity of gastric juice, making protein unable to fully digest and absorb, coupled with the decomposition and metabolism of bacteria in the intestinal cavity, these babies' stools are often smelly.

3, when the stool is shiny, when you consume too much fat, too much fatty acid will be produced in the intestinal cavity to stimulate the intestinal mucosa, which will increase the peristalsis of the intestine, produce light yellow liquid and a lot of stool, sometimes the stool is shiny, and even it can slide in the bedpan.

4, green stool If the stool is green, the amount of stool is small, and there is more mucus, it is hunger diarrhea.

In addition, some children who eat formula milk have dark green feces. The reason is that a certain amount of iron is added to the formula. These irons appear dark green when they come into contact with air through the digestive tract.

5. Small patients with egg drop soup-like stool viral enteritis and pathogenic Escherichia coli enteritis often have egg drop soup-like stool.

6. Tofu-like stool is more common in enteritis caused by mold.

7, water samples are more common in food poisoning and acute enteritis.

8. Patients with biliary obstruction caused by various reasons will discharge gray stool. Medically, it's called mud manure. In addition, if you eat too much milk or too little sugar, the fatty acids will combine with the minerals calcium and magnesium in food to form fatty soap, and the feces can also be gray, hard and smelly.

9. Tarry stool stays in the intestine for a long time due to upper digestive tract or small intestine bleeding. Because red blood cells are destroyed, hemoglobin combines with sulfide in the intestine to form ferrous sulfide, so the stool is black; Because ferrous sulfide stimulates the intestinal mucosa to secrete more mucus, and the feces are black and shiny, it is called tar stool, which is more common in bleeding caused by gastric and duodenal ulcers and chronic gastritis.

Love Reminder: Normal people can also blacken their feces by eating iron-containing foods such as animal blood and pig liver, while taking bismuth, charcoal powder and some traditional Chinese medicines can also blacken their feces, but they are generally grayish black and dull. Negative occult blood test can help identify.

10, bright red blood is bright red, and it is not mixed with feces, but it adheres to the surface of feces or has blood drops or discharge after defecation, suggesting that it is bleeding caused by anal or anal canal diseases, such as hemorrhoids, anal fissure, intestinal polyps, rectal tumors, etc.

1 1, jam-like stool, deep red jam-like stool found during intussusception; Dark red jam-like purulent blood can be seen in amebic dysentery.

12, mucopurulent blood is common in bacillary dysentery and campylobacter jejuni enteritis.

13, the washed meat is watery and has a special fishy smell, which is found in acute hemorrhagic necrotizing enteritis.

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