What Causes Green Colored Stool With Mucus In A Child?

Posted on Thu, 27 Apr 2017

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Question : My son, 4.5 months old, is having green potty with mucus for the past 5 days. There was fever couple of days back & after calpol, the fever has not come back. But, the green potty with mucus continues. Should I wait or take some action?

Answered by Dr. Vaishalee Punj (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Wait

Detailed Answer:
Hi
Thanks for your query.

Babies can have different colours of potty. Breast fed babies can often have green stools for no reason. Green colour may sometimes mean diarhea or undigestion of milk. In all these cases its ok to wait and watch.

Do let me know if baby is exclusively breastfed or is he having other foods. If he is breastfeeding then nothing much to be done. If bottle-feeding then prepare his milk in cleaner water from RO system.

Hope it helps. Let me know if I can assist you further

Dr Vaishalee

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj