Brown stools in babies can be caused by intestinal infections, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and diet.
The baby’s gastrointestinal tract is not well developed, easy to be infected by bacteria and viruses, brown stools. And accompanied by mucus should go to the hospital in time to do routine stool testing, if there is a bacterial infection need to take the appropriate antibiotics in time to deal with. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding, may also appear brown stools, may be tarry, shiny stools, need to do the fecal occult blood test to clarify the blood or not.
Most of the brown stools of children with gastrointestinal instability, diet has a certain relationship, for example, after taking a lot of dragon fruit may appear red stools and pink urine, belong to the normal physiological, not special treatment.
The baby stool color abnormalities need to be vigilant, as soon as possible children’s gastroenterology consultation, after a clear diagnosis for targeted treatment.