Patient's question:
Symptom Description: The baby is over 40 days old. Exclusive breastfeeding. Whenever the baby eats breast milk, the stool is not good. The stool is watery and loose, and even when passing gas, a little bit comes out. The baby cries during bowel movements. For two days, I was sick and stopped breastfeeding. When the baby drank formula milk, there was no diarrhea. But it might be that the formula milk is more irritating and causes some constipation. After starting breastfeeding again, the baby had diarrhea again. Why is this happening? Is there a problem with my milk? Or did the baby eat something it shouldn't have? Recently, I have been eating the following foods: cabbage and lean meat meatballs soup (ate more meatballs, less cabbage, drank a bowl of soup), amaranth (almost didn't eat any), scrambled eggs with tomatoes, pig trotters and soybean soup (only ate the lean meat and tendon parts of the pig trotters), winter...Doctor's answer:
Babies rarely experience breast milk diarrhea, usually only occurring in a small number of infants under 6 months old. There are two main reasons for breast milk diarrhea. One is that the prostaglandin content in breast milk may be relatively high. This substance can promote the movement of small intestinal smooth muscles, increase the secretion of water and electrolytes, and produce loose stools. Another reason is that the baby may be lactose intolerant.If a mother notices that her baby has 3-7 bowel movements a day, with pale green, foamy, watery stools containing bubbles and curds, and a sour odor, sometimes with transparent, string-like mucus; the diarrhea does not cause fever, and the baby shows no obvious discomfort or crying. Stool tests reveal no signs of infection, and the diarrhea is mild with no other symptoms. The baby remains active and has a good appetite. Although the diarrhea lasts for a long time, the weight gain is around 300 grams every 10 days. This is breast milk diarrhea.
Breast milk diarrhea is not a disease, but if the diarrhea persists for an extended period, it may lead to serious consequences such as growth stagnation or malnutrition, requiring timely treatment.