Hi.  I was taught that the differential diagnosis of bright red blood in
stools of newborns includes blood from mom's nipples.  The reasoning
explained to me by a Gastrointestinal specialist is that a newborn's
enzymes aren't yet working to full capacity to digest the blood.
So the question is, I suppose, when does a newborn/neonate/young infant
attain that capacity?  In other words, how old is too old to say it's blood
from the mom's nipples?

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