Why does the child develop a green diarrhea?

This unpleasant phenomenon, like a green diarrhea in a child, can seriously alarm parents.

Does diarrhea always signal a worsening of a baby's health? On what to pay attention, and how to cope with diarrhea of ​​green color in the child?

The parents should know the answers to these questions, regardless of the age of their children.

Causes of green diarrhea in a child

The reasons that can lead to the appearance of green diarrhea in children, in fact, not so much.

And the symptoms accompanying this phenomenon will help parents quickly find out if their baby needs medical care.

In some cases, a liquid green stool is just a natural and rapidly occurring phenomenon.

In particular, for the first few days of life, the baby can get the original feces, the so-called meconium, which is capable of giving the feces a dark green hue.

In this case, the newborn usually shows no signs of anxiety. In addition, it is important to distinguish when the child has diarrhea, and when - a normal chair with a slight shade of green.

Some products, especially fruits and vegetables, can give this shade. Diarrhea is manifested 5-6 or more times a day. This frequency really should alert.

The most common causes of green diarrhea:

• complementary feeding or replacement of the mixture;
• dysbiosis;
• intestinal infections;
• liver disease;
• in rare cases - intestinal bleeding.

Depending on what provoked the green diarrhea in the baby, the problem is accompanied by different symptoms.

Therefore it is very important to pay attention to how the child feels. If he is calm and does not complain about anything, then it is possible to limit himself to turning to the district pediatrician and hand over the tests without much haste.

But if the baby's fever has increased, the stomach hurts, and vomiting has been added to the symptoms, then, perhaps, he became a victim of an intestinal infection.

This situation requires immediate medical attention, as self-treatment can have serious consequences.

If symptoms of intoxication are attached to the child's complaints of pain in the liver region, then this may indicate a disease of this organ, which also requires a referral to a specialist.

But whatever the cause of the green diarrhea, it is important to monitor the condition of the child. Diarrhea, in particular, combined with vomiting, extremely quickly leads to dehydration, especially in infants.

To determine the presence of dehydration is easy, because the child immediately reduces the amount and volume of urination, and the color of urine becomes dark.

In addition, circles appear under the eyes, lips become dry, can even crack. In young children, probably the fall of the fontanel, the child becomes very sluggish.

Such dangerous complications of green diarrhea, such as anus fissures and hemorrhoids, even a prolapse of the rectum, can join dehydration.

To avoid such unpleasant and completely inappropriate for children's consequences, it is important to seek help in time.

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Dysbacteriosis as a cause of diarrhea

Sometimes parents discover a green diarrhea in a baby when switching to a new mixture or during the introduction of complementary foods.

In such a situation, it is easy enough to identify the source of the problem, because the imperfect gastrointestinal tract of the baby reacts quickly to a non-liked product.

Its cancellation, as a rule, allows to normalize a child's chair. The same applies to foods eaten by a nursing mother. Intolerance to something specific can also cause children to have green diarrhea.

With dysbacteriosis, children can not complain about anything, eat well and feel normal, except for more frequent trips to the toilet.

Slight mucus, foam or even blood may be present in the stool - if the situation is triggered.

Dysbacteriosis, that is, a violation of normal intestinal microflora, is typical not only for infants.

It can also be caused by taking antibiotics in an older child, if it was treated for some infectious disease.

But in addition, dysbiosis can cause allergies, improper diet and even reduced immunity.

In addition to the green diarrhea on the dysbacteriosis in the baby can indicate an acidic odor stool, frequent regurgitation. A small child may be bothered by bloating and colic, rashes may occur.

To diagnose dysbacteriosis, you must pass a special analysis of feces. Depending on his results, the pediatrician will be able to prescribe the appropriate treatment.

First of all, these are probiotics and prebiotics, which will help to fix the intestinal microflora.

If there is such a need, then they can assign sorbents( Enterosgel, Smektu), which will remove toxins from the body. Reception of these drugs quickly corrects the situation.

To prevent the development of a young child of green diarrhea due to dysbiosis, breastfeeding is considered the best way.

At the same time, the mother must exclude from her menu harmful and heavy products. Artificial children are often prescribed medicinal sour-milk mixtures.

Since green diarrhea, provoked by dysbacteriosis, is a very frequent phenomenon in children under one year, it is important to remember that with diarrhea the child's anus is strongly irritated.

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To avoid problems, the baby should be washed after each defecation, you can lubricate the anus with cream or baby oil.

What if the cause of diarrhea is an infection?

Intestinal infections are particularly affected by children aged 3 to 5 years. They already almost independently take food and can often eat unwashed fruit or vegetable.

In this case, the causative agent of infection can become fungi and viruses, a variety of bacteria. The children's organism reacts quite quickly to such unexpected guests.

Naturally, if the child is already five years old, he will be able to tell what exactly it hurts, and whether he is sick. But to do without a doctor, catching an intestinal infection, will not succeed.

After all, green diarrhea along with vomiting and fever may indicate rotavirus infection, salmonellosis or dysentery.

Especially should guard the use of fish or eggs on the eve. Therefore, if a bouquet of such symptoms is found, call an ambulance.

Before the arrival of doctors it is important to provide the child with first aid, as the temperature and diarrhea will quickly lead to dehydration.

To prevent it, you need to provide your child with boiled water. Very useful are solutions for normalizing the water-salt balance, such as "Regidron."

With severe dehydration, the baby can be prescribed a dropper already in the hospital. Sorbents are also appropriate for intestinal infection - removing toxins, they will alleviate the condition of the child.

In case of intestinal poisoning, two things should be understood: firstly, anesthetics should not be used because they can lubricate the clinical picture and complicate the diagnosis, and secondly, even at high temperature, antipyretic agents can be given only after consulting a doctor.

It's up to you to lower the temperature yourself by drinking heavily. In no case can you give your child antibiotics, because some of them are toxic to children.

It's important to remember exactly what the child was eating, and if you do not fully control it, then you should find out all the details from him personally.

If the doctor is convinced of the presence of the infection, then he will advise to go to the hospital. There, to determine why the child had a green diarrhea, the appropriate tests will be administered.

Among them, a general blood test, baclos feces and, possibly, vomit, a blood test for the detection of antibodies to the causative agent of salmonella. Children older than 5 years will have to keep on a strict diet.

To prevent the child from developing a green diarrhea, one should carefully monitor its hygiene and nutrition.

Young children should not be too early to introduce lure, and older - to overfeed with carbohydrates.

Doctors emphasize that adults should not lick children's spoons and pacifiers, so as not to infect them with their saliva.

No matter how old your child is, you should not ignore such a symptom as green diarrhea. Timely consultation of a specialist will avoid complications and problems.