Infant stool with black thread-like material may be the diet of dark green vegetables and other causes, may also be the baby supplemented with iron caused by these conditions are generally normal physiological phenomena, in addition to consider the upper gastrointestinal bleeding and other diseases.
1. food coloring effect: if recently the baby’s food has more dark green vegetables, or black sesame, mulberry and other dark-colored fruit food, these dark foods will make the baby’s stools have black threads, which is a normal physiological phenomenon.
2. Iron oxidation: if the baby recently ate iron rich health products, iron supplements, or ate pig’s blood and other iron-rich foods, iron in the stomach can be oxidized to trivalent iron, trivalent iron near black, then the baby’s stool will also have black thread-like material.
3. upper gastrointestinal bleeding: if the baby recently ate too hard things, the upper gastrointestinal tract mucosa cut, resulting in upper gastrointestinal bleeding, their own blood iron into the digestive tract, will also be oxidized to black, then the baby’s stool can also appear black thread-like material.
After eliminating physiological factors, if the symptoms of black thread-like material in baby’s stool persist without relief, please consult the doctor promptly to find out the cause.