The sour odor of baby’s stool may be caused by indigestion, intestinal infection, lactose intolerance and other reasons.
1. Indigestion: If the baby eats a lot of food that is not easy to digest, exceeding the digestive capacity of the gastrointestinal tract, and the food stays in the intestinal tract for too long, causing the food to ferment and produce more gas, it will lead to the baby’s stools having a sour odor.
2. Intestinal infections: due to the baby’s low resistance, after eating unclean food, may cause bacterial infections, food fermentation under the action of bacteria, gas production is too much, which will lead to the baby’s stool sour odor, the baby may also experience abdominal pain, diarrhea and other uncomfortable symptoms.
3. Lactose intolerance: mostly due to the baby’s body lack of lactase or lactase enzyme activity is low, resulting in dairy food can not be digested and absorbed, long time to stay in the intestinal tract, after the bacterial decomposition, will also lead to the baby appeared in the stool sour smell.
Baby stool sour odor, there may also be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.