Dark stools in breastfed newborns may be related to physiologic factors, medications, and diseases.
1. Physiological factors: If the newborn is underfed, resulting in delayed expulsion of meconium, black stools may occur.
2. Drug factors: If the newborn is anemic, he will take iron supplements and other drugs, and black stools may also occur.
3. Disease factors: newborns with bleeding caused by vitamin K deficiency, thrombocytopenia and other diseases may have dark stools.
Breastfed newborns black stool, there may 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.