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What Causes Yellow Strong Smelling Stool?

my one week old daughter has had very strong smelling gas and 2night her stool started to smell like vinegar yellow and runny. I am breast feeding and also doing formula half and half...is this need to worry...have a dr app fri just never had this in one of my kids b4
Fri, 17 Feb 2017
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one week old baby who is dependent on milk diet only usually have this kind of stool pattern. This is called transitional stools. initially baby passes greenish black stool then greener then yellowish green then by day 6 or 7 yellow bright golden. after birth the flora (healthy bacteria) of baby's gut start to develop which causes this change in stool color , after 7 to 10 days stool will remain like this .nothing to worry.

Please try to give breast feed as much as possible . exclusive breast feeding is best. formula feed has nothing to do with this change in color.
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What Causes Yellow Strong Smelling Stool?

one week old baby who is dependent on milk diet only usually have this kind of stool pattern. This is called transitional stools. initially baby passes greenish black stool then greener then yellowish green then by day 6 or 7 yellow bright golden. after birth the flora (healthy bacteria) of baby s gut start to develop which causes this change in stool color , after 7 to 10 days stool will remain like this .nothing to worry. Please try to give breast feed as much as possible . exclusive breast feeding is best. formula feed has nothing to do with this change in color.