What to do if your baby has green stools

  The color of your baby’s stool is not used as one of the criteria to confirm whether it is sick or not. As long as the number of stools and their nature are normal, green stools are often related to the way your baby is fed, etc. The baby is found to have green stool for the cause of the right treatment.  1, the baby is cold after the green stool, you can abdominal hot compress, clockwise massage, drink more warm water, pay attention not to eat too much badly digested food.  2, baby hunger state, gastrointestinal peristalsis too fast, so that the intestinal bilirubin has not been converted, from the stool, the stool may be green. This situation is appropriate to add supplementary food, increase the amount and frequency of meals.  3, high iron-containing formula or oral iron supplementation drugs for babies, can not fully absorb iron, the stool appears yellow-green or green, most of this case will be corrected after stopping the medication.  4, the baby added green vegetables, stools often appear green, because the diet appears green stools do not need treatment.  5, breastfeeding simply pulling green stool, no other accompanying symptoms, also known as hunger diarrhea, that is, the baby eat to the front milk is thin, containing protein water, used to quench thirst, after the milk contains more fat.  Therefore, parents who find their babies green stool, do not need to be nervous, observe whether diarrhea, there is no blood and other circumstances, most cases belong to the physiological performance, to find the cause from the feeding as soon as possible, timely correction on the return to normal.