To identify the symptoms by the color of the baby’s stool, the physiological stool color is greenish-black, golden-yellow, earthy-yellow, and the pathological stool color is watery-brown, red blood-stained stool, tarry stool, and grayish-white stool.
1. Green and black: the stools that babies start to excrete after birth are the residues formed in the amniotic fluid, which look black with green as meconium.
2. Golden color: Breastfed babies have soft golden yellow stools that are not particularly dry or hard.
3. earthy yellow: formula-fed babies stools are dry and rough, in the form of a hard, earthy yellow paste.
4. watery brown: infants with diarrhea symptoms, stools are usually watery, mixed with lumps, is brown loose shape.
5. Red, bloody stools: infants with anal fissure symptoms will have bloody stools, stools with blood or mucus, the shape is usually dry and hard.
6. Tarry stool: When infants have symptoms of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, the stool is thick, black and tarry in color.
7. Grayish-white stools: infants with liver or gallbladder disease and bile deficiency have grayish-white or white stools.
The color of infant stool to identify the symptoms may not be accurate, there are abnormalities recommend timely medical treatment.