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What Causes Pale Yellow/green Stools In A Child?

My 18 month old has pale yellow or pale green stools once in awhile. She also has problems with constipation. She drinks a lot of milk through out the day. I have put a call in to her doctor and am waiting for a return call. I googled the pale yellow stool and came up with scary answers, but also said it could be from too much milk. Could this be from too much whole milk?
Tue, 24 May 2016
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Hi.
Thanks for your query.
Noted the history about your 18 month old child who is having pale yellow pale green stools once in a while. Also has constipation, drinks a lot of milk throughout the day, waiting for a return call from her Doctor, got worried after using google.
Google can not have interaction and gives you only possible reasons which can be scary as you do not know the correlation among many a things.
The history is suggestive of just enteritis as the growing child's intestines get acclimatized with newer bacteria, loads of infection as they become very active and start putting fingers in mouth and so on.
I would advise you the following in such a situation:
stool tests for 3 consecutive days to get a proper diagnosis.
If the tests show infection, then a proper antibiotic therapy.
Add probiotic.
The daughter being 18 months old, she should be given normal diet and allow to sit with you, eat with the family so that she gets all the nutrients and the intestines get adjusted well.
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What Causes Pale Yellow/green Stools In A Child?

Hi. Thanks for your query. Noted the history about your 18 month old child who is having pale yellow pale green stools once in a while. Also has constipation, drinks a lot of milk throughout the day, waiting for a return call from her Doctor, got worried after using google. Google can not have interaction and gives you only possible reasons which can be scary as you do not know the correlation among many a things. The history is suggestive of just enteritis as the growing child s intestines get acclimatized with newer bacteria, loads of infection as they become very active and start putting fingers in mouth and so on. I would advise you the following in such a situation: stool tests for 3 consecutive days to get a proper diagnosis. If the tests show infection, then a proper antibiotic therapy. Add probiotic. The daughter being 18 months old, she should be given normal diet and allow to sit with you, eat with the family so that she gets all the nutrients and the intestines get adjusted well.