Many parents reflect that every time they change the formula for their babies, there will be diarrhea, the baby is difficult to parents are also very distressed. So, what exactly is the cause of this? How should parents help their babies change milk smoothly? Reasons for the baby to change the milk powder diarrhea There are two reasons for the baby to change the milk powder diarrhea: First, the baby is not absorbed the nutrients in the milk powder, such as lactose intolerance, etc., in this case you need to switch to another milk powder. The second is that the parents often give the baby to transfer milk, or transfer milk method is not right (but most are the latter). What to do if your baby has diarrhea after switching infant formula Although infant formula is designed to be “breastfed”, breastfed infant formula still does not contain enzymes that can help your baby’s digestion. In particular, the nutritional needs of babies before 6 months of age are very different from those after 6 months of age, so you need to pay extra attention when switching to a second-stage formula at 6 months of age. For example, you should choose to do it when your baby is healthy, and should delay the conversion when you encounter conditions such as diarrhea or colds. The basic principle is to reduce one tsp of the original formula and replace it with one tsp of the new formula, and then change to the second tsp if the baby has no adverse reaction. This is to allow the baby’s gastrointestinal digestive ability to adapt gradually. The whole switching time usually lasts for about 7 days. In addition, when mixing milk powder for your baby, do not mix rice soup, rice flour and calcium powder with milk powder. Otherwise, it will affect the child’s digestion and absorption. Baby change milk powder diarrhea, parents can also try the following methods: 1, mix the old and new milk powder to drink. Change the milk powder don’t change to the new milk powder at once, the baby can’t adapt, it’s easy to diarrhea. At first, scoop one-third of the new milk powder, and then scoop two-thirds of the old milk powder to the baby to drink. 2, drink two days 1:3 milk powder, and then half a spoon of new milk powder, half a spoon of old milk powder mixed drink. This is easier for the baby to adapt. 3, if the baby drink milk powder diarrhea, and is not particularly serious, you can give the baby a few days to eat probiotics, help to help the baby stop diarrhea. 5, if the use of the above methods for a week baby diarrhea is still not better, stop drinking the new milk powder, continue to drink the old milk powder, or replace the other new milk powder.