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Infant Has Diarrhea, Greenish Yellow Stools With Mucus, Cold, Cough. Help
hello, my 4.5 month old baby has had diahrrea for 3 days now, mostly greenish-yellow and mucus-y, because has a cold and cough . but i just changed another poopy diaper and this time, along with the color and mucus, the stool had little black streaks in it. he is strictly formula fed, no solids yet. what could this be and should i take him to our pediatrician?
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Fri, 7 Sep 2012
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Greenish Mucus stool is usually due to the child not able to digest the feed.It may be due to overfeeding .Pl see that you do not feed the child very frequently and feed the child at intervals and not more than every three hrs.If you are uncomfortable you may take out your milk with breast pump or squeeze it out so that your milk does not get infected.
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