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What Causes Child To Pass Stool After Eating A Meal?
My son is 3. Often he passes a stool just a couple of hours after eating a meal and there are lots of recognizable fragments from the recent meal in the stool. Is this too quick for this food to be going through his system? Could it be he is sensitive to an ingredient in that meal?
Fri, 8 May 2020
Hello,
This not usually a problem. And in fact, can be quite helpful for toilet training! You know how to plan! Some kids will sometimes have very fast "gastric transit" time. That's how long food goes thru the system.
Sometimes it's one of those "always been true" things about a child, sometimes it comes and goes. Most often the food that comes thru it of high fiber because it doesn't sit in the GI track long enough to fully digest.
And that's OK, he's still getting the nutrients. Sometimes it's the brightest color thing you see, or could be something he doesn't chew as well. Also OK. As long as he is growing well - weight and height - then I'd just keep feeding him as you are.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr. Lisa Baker
This not usually a problem. And in fact, can be quite helpful for toilet training! You know how to plan! Some kids will sometimes have very fast "gastric transit" time. That's how long food goes thru the system.
Sometimes it's one of those "always been true" things about a child, sometimes it comes and goes. Most often the food that comes thru it of high fiber because it doesn't sit in the GI track long enough to fully digest.
And that's OK, he's still getting the nutrients. Sometimes it's the brightest color thing you see, or could be something he doesn't chew as well. Also OK. As long as he is growing well - weight and height - then I'd just keep feeding him as you are.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr. Lisa Baker
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