lets talk poop

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Try posting on the BF board too.I had an allergy question and they were super helpful

[dogmama22]

From what I understand, dairy allergies are over diagnosed. It also takes quite a bit of time for all of the dairy protein to leave your system, so LO could still be having symptoms more than 2 weeks from now even if that was the cause. I believe blood in BMs is an indicator of an allergy, though. What color have her BMs been?

[dogmama22]

I'm on the same page as @freckleface on this. That's why I asked about poop color. Green poop indicates baby is taking in more foremilk than hindmilk. Oversupply can also cause LOs to gasp more air from gulping, which would explain the fussiness and gas.

[erbear]

My kid poops every 11 days. My pediatrician wants us to use Karo syrup after a week to try and stimulate her, but I'm not sure it worked so I didn't do it this time - and she still went on the 11th day. When she goes it's perfect breastmilk poop - soft, yellow, and seedy.

She passes gas ALL the time. She never seems to be in pain from not pooping, either.

[billyhorrible]

Color alone doesn't indicate much. As pointed out, the blood is more of an indicator of a problem, and that usually is milk/soy protein intolerance.

Other than green and bloody, how is the stool consistency? Mucousy? Bubbly/frothy?

[Widget123]

FWIW my DD has a cows milk allergy and I'm not convinced from reading your LO's symptoms that that is what this is. For DD it takes days after exposure for the blood to appear in the poop in clumps then it takes days and several poops later to get it out of her system (ie the blood to stop appearing in the poop).

[wormgerm]

His poop today has been dark yellow and not seedy to my memory. Does lack of seed indicate a problem?

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Aug 3, 2015 16:50:36 GMT -5 erbear said:

My kid poops every 11 days. My pediatrician wants us to use Karo syrup after a week to try and stimulate her, but I'm not sure it worked so I didn't do it this time - and she still went on the 11th day. When she goes it's perfect breastmilk poop - soft, yellow, and seedy.

She passes gas ALL the time. She never seems to be in pain from not pooping, either.

DS was like this and the pediatrician was never concerned as long as the poop is never hard.  the pedi told me that breastmilk does not leave a lot of waste in their body so sometimes BF babies just don't need to poop that much. 

[billyhorrible]

Yeah, between the blood and consistency there is definitely something going on. It makes me feel like an intolerance, but Widget123 has more experience with that so I'd defer to her opinion.

[Widget123]

Aug 3, 2015 18:23:30 GMT -5 @ke3812 said:

billyhorrible Widget123 today it was very mucousy when it was green. It looked almost like stretchy green snot.. gross i know! sometimes it is frothy/ bubbly.
I only saw the blood twice and it was a very small amount. I have tried to cut out dairy since friday but I know it is hidden in all sorts of things.
Its so weird to because this just showed up, before then it was always mustard yellow. Now it goes back and forth

Well, the mucusyness does sound like it could be a dairy allergy and DD does have transitional poop that is dark green when she is getting the last bit out of her system but I still think it is a good idea to investigate a possible fore milk-hind milk imbalance as well.

[shahoi]

Aug 3, 2015 18:11:19 GMT -5 Widget123 said:

FWIW my DD has a cows milk allergy and I'm not convinced from reading your LO's symptoms that that is what this is. For DD it takes days after exposure for the blood to appear in the poop in clumps then it takes days and several poops later to get it out of her system (ie the blood to stop appearing in the poop).

O had severe tummy/gas issues and would scream/cry the majority of the day trying to pass gas.. after trying a few things that showed no improvement, the pedi has us try out Nutramigen, which is formula for cows milk allergy. It has helped tremendously with her tummy problems. She never ever had blood in her stool though. I wonder if she truly has an allergy to cows milk?