Parents can determine whether their baby's body is in a healthy state based on the daily feces they excrete. When a baby is in good health, the feces they excrete are moderately soft and hard, in the form of strips, with a golden color. Some babies may occasionally excrete dark green feces, but this is a normal situation. When there is visible mucus in the baby's feces, it is very likely that there is a problem with the baby's health. So, is pulling mucus in the baby's feces diarrhea?
Baby pulling mucus is likely due to enteritis or bacterial dysentery, which can have diarrhea symptoms in clinical practice. So when there is visible mucus in the baby's stool, it is best to take the baby to the hospital for a check-up. Before taking the baby to the hospital for examination, parents must collect the baby's stool. This way, after arriving at the hospital, a routine examination of the baby's stool can be done to detect whether it is caused by bacterial infection leading to enteritis or dysentery, and then targeted treatment can be carried out.
In fact, when a person's body is healthy, mucus is also secreted in their feces, but the amount secreted is very small and almost invisible to the naked eye. When the amount of mucus secretion increases, it indicates that there are problems with the body's health, and there are many diseases that can cause mucus stool. In addition to enteritis and bacterial dysentery mentioned above, clinical symptoms of diarrhea can also occur in many diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome, infectious gastroenteritis, and childhood diarrhea. So if a baby pulls mucus and defecates, it may not necessarily be diarrhea, but it could also be caused by other diseases.
