Black scum in baby’s stool may be caused by dietary factors or indigestion.
1. Dietary factors: If the baby’s complementary food added too much iron-rich food, resulting in the baby can not be absorbed or consume too much black beans, black rice and other melanin-rich type of food will cause the color of the stool to become black, it looks like there are black substances in the stool. General dietary changes can relieve the symptoms.
2. indigestion: pediatric spleen and stomach delicate, improper feeding caused by indigestion, gastrointestinal tract absorption function is reduced, if the baby ate fungus, black beans and other dark-colored food, food is not fully digested directly out of the body will also cause this symptom.
Infants with black slag in the stool, there may be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, to give targeted treatment or treatment.