What's wrong with pooping as soon as you eat?

Normally, the food ingested by the human body will undergo several rounds of digestion and absorption through organs such as the stomach, large intestine, and small intestine. The nutrients will be absorbed into the body to meet the body's nutritional needs, while the unabsorbed substances will be excreted from the body in various ways. However, this process requires a certain amount of time to accumulate, and many people have the phenomenon of wanting to defecate after eating. What's going on?

Why does my baby poop as soon as he eats?

1. Pay attention to the child's bowel movements. If the child has loose stools and foamy stools, first consider the possibility of lactose intolerance. Lactose intolerance in young children can usually be treated symptomatically by supplementing lactase. Most children will gradually improve after six months after birth.

2. This situation is diarrhea caused by indigestion due to gastroenteritis. It can be diagnosed and treated by visiting the pediatric department of the hospital. You can cure it by taking some anti-inflammatory and digestive aid medicines, avoid catching cold, and pay attention to food hygiene.

What are the symptoms of indigestion in newborns

1. After the newborn's meconium is excreted, the baby who is breastfed will generally have yellow, uniform, and pasty stools, and will have more frequent bowel movements. Bowel movements may occur 4-5 times a day. Children who drink milk have bowel movements 2-3 times a day. The bowel movements are white and formed, and sometimes curds can be seen.

2. However, when the newborn is 2-3 months old, another kind of stool is often seen. It is green in appearance, mixed with white lumps, sometimes with line-shaped transparent liquid, and sometimes like a broken egg without a shape. Experienced doctors or people who often take care of children know that this is the stool of a breastfed baby; but young mothers will rush their children to the hospital, thinking that their children have diarrhea.

3. Although this type of diarrhea may cause bowel movements up to 6-7 times a day, the stool is yellow-green and thin, and may even contain small curds and mucus. However, no red blood cells or white blood cells will be found under a microscope, and at most fat globules can be seen. Good weight gain in children is the most important objective indicator for judging this type of diarrhea.

4. Another characteristic of this type of children is that they are in good spirits, have a good appetite, and do not have a fever. No vomiting. Therefore, when seeing this kind of physiological diarrhea, parents do not need to be anxious, and there is no need to stop breastfeeding and switch to milk to change the stool characteristics. Generally, this physiological diarrhea will heal naturally after the child is 4-6 months old and proper complementary food is added.

5. Some mothers drink more soups containing a lot of fat during the confinement period, which causes the secreted breast milk to contain more fat. This is the root cause of fat globules that can be seen in the baby's stool under a microscope.

If a child has problems with indigestion and diarrhea, it is important to stop the diarrhea in time. Long-term diarrhea will have many negative effects on the child's body. However, it should be noted that antidiarrheal drugs must be selected by a doctor and should not be used casually on children. Children have fragile bodies and are prone to other diseases. The dosage of the drugs also needs attention.