What tests can be used to exclude breast milk diarrhea?

Which items can be used to check for breast milk diarrhea? To diagnose a disease, an examination is essential, but some special diseases have obvious symptoms and can be accurately diagnosed. For example, breast milk diarrhea is such a disease. Let's take a look at which items can be used to check for breast milk diarrhea?

Diarrhea caused by breastfeeding may be due to the high content of prostaglandins in breast milk, which promotes the movement of small intestinal smooth muscles, increases the secretion of water and electrolytes, and produces loose stools. It may also be due to the child's lactose intolerance and the lack of lactase in the body. Lactose intolerance is divided into primary and secondary types. The lead acetate method can be used to measure the amount of lactose in the child's feces for initial screening, and then confirmed by the rapid effect of a lactose-free diet.

In fact, breast milk diarrhea has obvious characteristics. This type of diarrhea usually causes 3-7 bowel movements a day. The stool is foamy and watery, has a special sour smell, is watery and slightly green, contains foam and milk curds, and sometimes even contains strips of transparent mucus. There is no fever during diarrhea, the baby does not have obvious pain or crying, stool tests show no abnormalities in terms of infection, the degree of diarrhea generally has no other symptoms, and the baby is lively and has a good appetite.

Therefore, breast milk diarrhea is a pediatric disease that can be checked without any examination. When so-called physiological breast milk diarrhea occurs, do not switch to milk feeding for the purpose of forming stools. The baby's body will gradually adapt to the prostaglandins in breast milk, and the lactase will gradually mature and the enzyme activity will increase, so that it can decompose, digest and absorb lactose, and the condition will gradually improve with the addition of complementary foods.

In addition, be careful not to cover the nipple of the child. After each breast is basically empty, if you continue to suck, the fat content in the milk will increase, which is easy to cause fat indigestion. It is recommended to suck when you want to suck, and stop when you don’t want to suck. It takes about 10 minutes each time, and the full breast can be basically sucked empty. The methods to prevent diarrhea generally start from life. For example, in terms of diet, do not eat rotten, spoiled or expired items, such as eggs, leftovers, leftovers and dairy products, which contain certain bacteria.