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>I am trying to put the pieces together of a mind puzzle. I'm not sure how to
>word this so please forgive the rambling context.
My understanding of green stools (in otherwise basically thriving,
happy, healthy babies, which are the sort of babies I deal with,
mostly) is that they 'emerge' green because the waste material has
not had long enough in the lower part of the gut to turn yellow.
'Yellow-ification' happens after the stool is green. Anything which
speeds up the transit of the stool will increase the liklihood of its
expulsion while it is still green.
Now, this means that it might be green if there is not as much fat
going in the top end - fat slows down the transit time. Green might
also happen because of a very slight gastro infection that the baby's
body deals with by expelling the contents of his gut more quickly
than otherwise.
Neither of these things are worrisome in the least, if the baby
continues to be basically thriving and happy, and the mother doesn't
need to do anything about them.
Some babies have green stools most of the time. I would say my
experience of talking to mothers supports the idea that probably most
babies have the occasional green or greenish stool.
>I had an ND (Natural doctor) tell me that green poops
>indicate an allergy
>was present.
This is, I think, much too dogmatic. I would like to see evidence of
this being true before accepting it.
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
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