If your baby is healthy, happy and without diarrhea, you should not worry, but take into account the following symptoms.
QUESTION
I have a baby who sometimes poops green or yellowish. During the last week, in addition, I have seen mucus. In the emergency room they explained that it could be an indication of diarrhea, but now his pediatrician says that it is normal. Who do I listen to?
ANSWER
The mucus in your poop is normal
Yellow or green stools are normal in babies. You shouldn’t worry at all. And neither does the mucus in your stool. However, there is no contradiction in what they have told you. In the hospital they thought: «This child until yesterday had no mucus in his stool and today he seems to be healthy. But just as a process of diarrhea is beginning and tomorrow it manifests itself ». His pediatrician, on the other hand, thought: «This child has been mucus in his excrement for days; He is healthy, happy, he gains weight and without diarrhea, so nothing happens to him ».
Go to the emergency room only if:
? You have made more than six liquid stools in the last eight hours or bloody liquid stools.
? Has a fever: more than 38º.
? You constantly vomit, refuse fluids, or appear dehydrated.
? He suffers from abdominal pain.