Question
The baby is two months old and has been experiencing diarrhea continuously for over a week, with rumbling stomach sounds. Initially, the diarrhea occurred two to three times a day, yellow and very thin, sometimes resembling egg white. Later on, it turned into yellow paste, occurring once or twice a day. Baby One Patch was used.
Answer
The symptoms you described are indeed diarrhea. When a baby is fed breast milk, the stool is usually more frequent than in those fed formula milk, appearing as yellow-green paste; formula-fed babies have yellow, formed stool. Diarrhea refers to an increase in the amount of water in the stool and a change in the stool composition. Typically, during diarrhea, the frequency of bowel movements increases, the water content rises, and the stool color turns green with an acidic smell. Recommendations: For babies fed breast milk or milk with a similar formula, the stool is usually loose with a slightly acidic taste and is often a beautiful yellow color. The number of bowel movements can range from three to five times a day to an extremely small amount of over ten times. As long as the baby can eat, play, and sleep well, has a rosy complexion, normal expression, and stable weight gain, such stool is normal for the baby and does not count as diarrhea. Moreover, before one month old, regardless of which type of milk the baby is fed, due to the underdeveloped absorption function, especially poor absorption capacity for fat and lactose, the stool is almost always loose and watery. It takes several weeks for the stool to gradually become formed, which is known as ‘forming stool’. Best wishes! The above suggestions are for the question “Two-month-old baby frequently experiencing diarrhea,” hoping they will be helpful to you. Wishing you good health!