Green Stool In Babies With Mucus

If the baby is content gaining well and drinking well and the only problem is that the baby has green bowel movements the mother.

Green stool in babies with mucus. Babies with an infection may also have green stool. Excerpt from dr jack newman on dr jack newman s facebook dec 25 2012. Mucus stomach bug and an imbalance in the foremilk and hindmilk can also cause green stool. This can also happen to older babies as new foods are introduced.

With a bacterial infection there is often blood in the stool along with mucus. If a baby breastfeeds their stool may seem to contain mucus. It is most common among babies between the ages of five to nine months. For example you may produce green stool after consuming certain iron rich foods or iron supplements leafy green vegetables or products with green food coloring.

Some blood may even be present in cases of extreme irritation. Sometimes the stool might even look yellow or slightly orange because of the way bile has mixed with a baby or child s diet. This irritation leads to a green mucous like stool. The baby may have a viral infection or may be suffering from stomach flu both of which lead to diarrhoea in the form of watery green stools.

If your baby frequently has green poo or yellowy green poo but is gaining weight well and is happy and content it may just be normal for your baby. Green poop may even result from your baby s sensitivity to a medication you are taking in such cases you are likely to observe other symptoms such as a skin rash. Additionally a newborn baby will normally pass thick sticky and dark green stools called meconium for the first few days after birth. In these cases the green stool with mucus is usually accompanied by other symptoms like tummy problems skin or breathing issues.

1 green poop may be normal for your baby. Intussusception can cause the baby to excrete jelly like mucus ridden stools. In fact green poop in babies and kids is not unusual. When babies go through their teething phase they end up swallowing excessive drool and saliva which can lead to intestinal irritation.

For example some babies who feed for short periods before switching breasts have frothy green stool. Breastfed babies pass green poop if their moms eat a lot of leafy greens purple or blue colored food and certain medicines. This can happen when the baby. Irritation of the bowel pain and stool with mucus are among the symptoms.