Patient's question:
The baby is just five months old and started adding complementary food, rice porridge, in the evening. It was raining that day. I don't know if it was due to the complementary food not being suitable or if the baby caught a cold. The next day, the baby had diarrhea with very little foam, and they had five to six bowel movements a day. Even after taking medicine, the number of bowel movements didn't decrease.Doctor's answer:
The child is gradually growing, but the parents did not timely supplement the child with food or insufficient food. The children are actually very hungry. They will have more feces, mucus, and foam. Their appetite is normal, but their weight is lighter than that of their peers. The medical community believes that this diarrhea is caused by the child's hunger, which increases intestinal peristalsis, thereby increasing the frequency of bowel movements. Under normal circumstances, after gradually increasing food intake, the frequency of bowel movements will return to normal.