Thursday, September 03, 2009

What are the characteristics of infant faeces


Parents bring their children to the hospital, we often hear: "A child's stool color hair green, how the matter?"; "The child's stool, there are particles, what is the problem? The like. Can see that some parents do not understand children's normal stool should look like. Here's an overview of the knowledge in this regard:
Normal stool usually contains about 80% water, the rest of the main component is not fully digest proteins, carbohydrates, fats and calcium mineral composition of food residue; may also carry a small amount of mucus and bacteria. However, manure characteristics in children may be due to feed ingredients vary.
1, breast-feeding time: a simple human-milk-fed children, stool should be yellow or golden yellow, for uniform paste; or with a little yellow stool particles, there is no smell, because an acid reaction Shaodai sour . Occasionally a little thin and with a bit of green is normal. Human milk feeding are normally 2-4 times a day bowel movement. According to the child's habits, if the stools a day on weekdays are the times, a sudden increase to 4-5 times is not normal. However, some children with normal bowel movements 4-5 times a day is, or even more. As long as the general good condition, body weight remained stable growth, it can not be said of the anomalies.
2, artificial feeding time: milk feeding my son's stool was neutral or alkaline, compared with dry thick, yellow or sallow, such as fresh milk feeding, the stool can be mixed with white, casein clot. Because milk is rich in protein, protein breakdown can make more smelly droppings. When artificial feeding should be 1-2 times per day within the stool.
3, mixed-feeding time: in the human milk or milk-fed at the same time, as supplemented by rice porridge, rice, pasta, or purée and so on, stool traits will change accordingly. Canadian food starch can is slightly large dark brown stool volumes have increased, increased smell, but also can become a little thin some. If fed with vegetables or fruit traits when the stool can be close to adults. Remind parents to note that feeding kids vegetables, may find that some of purée-like mass stool, which is to increase the child to adapt to new food supplement a normal phenomenon when the parents to refrain from this mistaken for indigestion. In daily life, parents often encounter a child changing the shape of feces situation, with the above knowledge, you will know what's what, and will not dilute the child's stool, or in which the discovery of a small raw-vegetable kind of things to worry about afraid.

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