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Child Has Green Stools. Due To Ferrous Salt In Ferium Drops?
Age of my grand daughter is 2 months & 5 days. From the day 15h, doctor advised Ferium Xt drops at a dose of 8 drops twice daily. The product is a combination of Ferrous Ascorbate & folic acid . The baby is under breast feeding & sometimes ones or twice she is being fed with Nanpro as advised by the specilist Doctor. We are checking her stool colour regularly & find it is having greeenish in colour. My question to you is: Is it due to ferrous salt which gives the colour of stool more greener than yellow?
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Mon, 8 Oct 2012
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Dear Datta. prakash You are right, green motion can be due to Iron.Green
motion is normally harmless. If the baby feeds okay and otherwise normal
I think you should not worry about. kindest regards Dr S.K.Mukherjee
motion is normally harmless. If the baby feeds okay and otherwise normal
I think you should not worry about. kindest regards Dr S.K.Mukherjee
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