When you should not panic?
The reasons why a child has white feces may be several, and they are both harmless and dangerous. Usually, if the baby does not have additional anxiety symptoms: pain, diarrhea, temperature, etc., then there is no reason for panic. In order to understand what white feces mean for a child and why it arose, first of all, you need to pay attention to the baby's diet. The most common causes that form a white feces in a child:
- availability of a large number of milk products in the menu. And, here we are talking not only about milk or kefir, but also about milk porridge with light grades of cereals, or the use of a large amount of cottage cheese, sour cream, cheese;
- taking certain medications, such as aspirin;
- in infants - the transition to a new mixture or the introduction of complementary foods in the form of milk porridge.
Just want to note that if a child for one of the above reasons is marked with a stool whitish, then changing the diet or stop giving medicines, the feces quickly acquire a characteristic color for him.
When urgent medical consultation is needed?
However, not always, when the child feces of white - it's harmless. Very often, with this symptom doctors talk about hepatitis. However, do not forget that with this disease the baby has dark urine, yellowing of the skin and eye protein. If the baby has such symptoms, then he needs urgent hospitalization. In addition, there are a number of other diseases when the baby croaks with white feces, but they are always accompanied by additional symptoms. The most famous of them are:
- Rotavirus infection.
- Diseases of the gallbladder.
The reason why the stool changes color, lies in the blockage of the bile ducts, along which bile leaves. And lead to this can be as cholelithiasis, bacterial cholecystitis, kink of the gallbladder, and worms that have settled in the ducts. The patient, in addition to bright feces, will always have pain in the right hypochondrium and dark urine.
- Diseases of the pancreas.
- Whipple's disease.
In this disease, the child has unformed, liquid white feces, vomiting and high fever (38-40 degrees). As a rule, with rotavirus infection the baby is put in a hospital under the strict supervision of doctors.
An acute attack of pancreatitis is characterized by a severe, acute pain that surrounds the upper parts of the trunk. The baby has a light stool, diarrhea, vomiting, fever. The best thing for a child in this situation is an urgent call of a doctor.
This disease is rare. The main symptom is diarrhea foamy white feces with an unpleasant odor. In this case, a doctor's consultation is necessary.
Unusual chair in a child
There are cases when in a feces a white lump is found in the child, and, as a rule, parents do not quite understand what it is. One of the explanations for this is undigested food. Most often this occurs in young children, especially when they first tried some unusual dish for them. This condition does not require special treatment and for a couple of days passes by itself.
But if in the feces of a child found white veins, it is likely to speak of colitis or dysbiosis of the intestine. To confirm this diagnosis, you need to visit a gastroenterologist and, probably, a proctologist.
White clots in the feces of a child - this is also a bad symptom. As a rule, they consist of mucus and come in various shades: from dirty white to white and yellow. Clumps can talk about,
If the feces have white flakes found in the baby, then most likely there is candidiasis of the esophagus, and the baby has the remains of undigested milk or mixture.
So, to see a doctor or not, if a stool of unusual color is found, it is a matter of case. It should be remembered that if a baby has dark urine, pain, diarrhea, etc., then he needs to provide qualified help, because, as a rule, diseases with such symptoms do not pass by themselves.