Baby blue-grey poop?!
Question: Baby blue-grey poop!?
My 7 weeks old son is having blue-grey poop and I can not find and answer!. He has DS and he has heavy poop diapers with sticky blue-grey feces!. He was born with low sugar levels and he was discharge from NICU from Pediatric endocrinologist with normal levels, but I am concern about pancreas problems or SDS syndromeWww@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Don't be frightened by the color changes of BMs!. In normal infants, BMs change color as the baby's diet changes, as the digestive tract matures, and as it is populated by new, normal bacteria!. It's rare that color changes signal a digestive problem!. Usually color changes just mean that there is more or less of the yellow/green/brown/orange pigments that are picked up along the way!.
* If the color of your baby's stools stay chalky white, there may be no bile from the liver to digest the food!.
* If the stool is tarry black, there may be blood in the digestive tract that has turned dark black as it traveled down the intestines!.
* If there is bright red blood in the stools, there usually has been some blood expressed very close to the anus!. A red stool can also be caused by certain medicines, beets, and food colorings!. If it's needed, your pediatrician can test your baby's stool to see if blood is present!.
But, if you're worried about pancreatic problems the color of the stool would most likely be pale yellow, greasy, foul-smelling stool which is credited to the malabsorption of fat due to pancreatic insufficiency, as seen with pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, cystic fibrosis, celiac disease!.
If he has SDS then there would be little absorbtion in the intestines leading to foul smelling feces due to increased fat in the stool!.
If it gets much worse and persists then I would recommend going to a doctor!. You can get tested to see if you're carrying the SDS gene if you wish!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
* If the color of your baby's stools stay chalky white, there may be no bile from the liver to digest the food!.
* If the stool is tarry black, there may be blood in the digestive tract that has turned dark black as it traveled down the intestines!.
* If there is bright red blood in the stools, there usually has been some blood expressed very close to the anus!. A red stool can also be caused by certain medicines, beets, and food colorings!. If it's needed, your pediatrician can test your baby's stool to see if blood is present!.
But, if you're worried about pancreatic problems the color of the stool would most likely be pale yellow, greasy, foul-smelling stool which is credited to the malabsorption of fat due to pancreatic insufficiency, as seen with pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, cystic fibrosis, celiac disease!.
If he has SDS then there would be little absorbtion in the intestines leading to foul smelling feces due to increased fat in the stool!.
If it gets much worse and persists then I would recommend going to a doctor!. You can get tested to see if you're carrying the SDS gene if you wish!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Take him to the doctors!. They'd know!.Www@Answer-Health@Com