My baby was having greenish stool last week. I tried to study My breastfeeding method and made sure I empty One breast before offering the second one Now it's almost 2 weeks I introduce pap with Nan2 along with side rice pudding but his poop has Not changed back to the bright yellow but rather dark green but not watery with egusi like particles. Pls, cud it still be inadequate feeding cus av not introduce anything to my diet that cud warrants the change in thé colour of his stool.
Medical Doctor
The first stool every baby passes, meconium, is also greenish in colour, for the obvious reason that he/she is yet to feed.
Occasional passage of a greenish stool, especially if bulky, and the child is not losing weight, may also be normal.
Lactose intolerance, and milk allergy, may also cause it. In these cases, the child may be fussy, and irritable as well. In the former, there may also be bloating, and excessive passage of gas.
This is so as, suboptimal feeding makes small volumes of food materials to be present in the intestine. Most of these would be absorbed by the body, and what would be present at the distal end of the intestine would just be bile, which would then run through, like water in a pipe, without enough time for intestinal flora to convert Bilirubin to Stercobilin. It would then come out as greenish coloured watery stools.