BAB baby with green color is normal. This condition can be caused by various things, ranging from milk consumed by infants to due to the growth process. But sometimes, baby stools that turn green can also be a possibility of disease.
As a parent, you need to pay attention to changes in the texture, number, and color of bowel movements in babies. Because, it is one factor that shows the health condition of your baby.
A newborn baby will indeed release dark green or blackish stool called meconium. The color of stool in newborns is normal.
Changes in color in baby BAB occur naturally during the process of growth and development, ranging from black or dark green, yellow, orange, red, to green. But for some conditions, a green baby's chapter can be a clue of a condition that is being experienced by the baby.
What Causes Baby's BAB to Green?
When babies are introduced to solid food, then what they consume not only affects the texture of dirt, but also its color. The green color in a baby's BAB can come from food, such as bean porridge, peas, and spinach.
In addition to food consumed by infants, there are several other factors that can cause baby's bowel movements to be green, including:
1. Food consumed by nursing mothers
The food you consume can affect the quality of the milk that you give to your child. BAB baby can turn green if you eat lots of green vegetables or foods and drinks that contain green food coloring.
In addition to food, iron supplements that you may be consuming can also affect the quality of breast milk and cause baby's bowel to be green.
2. Teething
When teething, the body will produce excess saliva. Little also can accidentally swallow the saliva. If you swallow too much, this saliva can change the color of baby's poop to green.
3. Foremilk or hindmilk
BAB of green babies can also occur because babies consume too much low-calorie breast milk (foremilk breast milk) or receive too little high-fat breast milk (hindmilk breast milk).
Foremilk is diluted breast milk that first comes out when a mother is breastfeeding, while hindmilk is a milk that is thicker and appears at the end of the process of breastfeeding.
To overcome this, let your baby suckle on one side of the breast longer to get higher milk fat. In addition, you can also start the process of breastfeeding with the side of the breast that was last smoked by Little.
4. Your child is allergic
Green BAB experienced by Little can occur because he is allergic. Allergies can be triggered by foods the baby consumes or if Little is given formula milk.
Try to note, if a baby's stool is green every time given breast milk or certain foods and the condition is accompanied by a rash, itching, the baby looks fussy, or often sneezes, then it could be a sign that the baby is allergic.
Immediately consult your baby to the doctor to find out the causes of allergies and how to treat them.
5. The baby is sick
BAB baby in green color can also indicate that he is suffering from an illness, such as diarrhea. You can suspect that your child has diarrhea if the frequency of your baby's bowel movements becomes more frequent than usual, looks weak, and the bowel diarrhea.
Diarrhea in infants is also usually accompanied by several other symptoms, such as:
- Fever
- Nausea and vomiting
- Not wanting to breastfeed or eat
- Stool is dark or accompanied by blood spots
- Dry mouth
- Does not shed tears when crying
- Sleepy
- Appear weak or inactive as usual
- The skin is not immediately flat after being pinched
- Eyes or cheeks look more concave
If you are aware of the symptoms above in your child, then it could be a sign that the diarrhea he suffered has caused your child to become dehydrated. The solution, give him ASI more often than usual.
If you can consume solid food, give your child more milk or milk and oral rehydration fluids (such as pedialite or ORS) every time he defecates or vomits.
However, if within 24 hours the diarrhea will not improve, immediately take your child to a pediatrician. You also need to see your child to the doctor if the green chapter that has happened for more than 5 days and your child looks weak, less willing to eat or drink, and experience weight loss.
