EBF 3 month old baby poo problems

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I’m looking for something advice. My 12 week old ebf baby has had persistently green and very mucusy poos for 10 days.

The green is like forest green not at all greeny yellow and the mucus is sometimes a full nappy’s worth, so a lot. Previously to this my baby had very normal yellow mushy poo. It now smells foul too often vinegary.

The doctor has sent off a stool sample but my baby is otherwise not unwell.

I can’t find anything online about persistent green and mucus filled stools.

Does anyone have any experience of this?

Thanks.

My DS has exactly what you describe and turned out to be allergy related.

Dairy allergy was the culprit here. GP was sure it was a bug even after weeks of upset. Saw a different GP one day and they said straight away that it was likely to be a dairy allergy. So, I gave up dairy and the symptoms all stopped. Reintroduced after 6 weeks and they came back.

DD is 14 months and still reacts. Just this week she’s having a flair up of eczema and an upset tummy, probably due to a nursery mistake.

Was baby colicky too? That was our other big symptom?

Thank you! Glad to hear we’re not alone. I’m getting so worried.

That’s what I was thinking about dairy so I’d started cutting it out of my diet but symptoms just as bad... how long did it take before you noticed a difference? I’d only stopped for about a week if that so far so presumably not long enough?

He’s often got terrible trapped wind and winding him is generally very difficult.

My health visitor said it wouldn’t be a dairy allergy because he’s not vomiting but I’m not sure she’s right. Were your babies sick a lot with it?

No she's no right. Unfortunately HV's and GP's to be fair often don't get much trainings on allergies in babies.

DS is allergic to dairy, soya and eggs. He vomited with soy but not dairy. Eggs caused less obvious issues and he out grew this one at 5 but still has the others at 7.

You need to be really strict with eliminating dairy. It might be worth taking soy out too initially as some babies will have problems with both. Takes about 4 weeks to see a difference.