Healthy StoolsA healthy baby’s stools can be any of these colours. Do not worry about green stools. Breast fed babies often pass watery stools. A sudden change to frequent waterystools of any colour may mean thebaby is unwell.

• Breast-fed babies – often the stool

colour is daffodil yellow

• Bottle-fed babies – often the stool

colour is English mustard yellow

Suspect StoolsIn babies with liver disease the stoolsmay be one of the colours below. Donot worry about one or two stoolsthat look unusual. Don’t forget tolook at the urine colour – in a newborn baby it should be colourless.

Any baby with stools the colourbelow – whatever the age, should beinvestigated for liver disease.

Stool Chart

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Note: Digital printing or photocopying of these colourswill alter them. Use only items supplied by CLDF.

Prolonged jaundice = jaundicepersisting beyond 2 weeks ofage in term babies & 3 weeksin pre-term babies

• Persistently yellow urinestaining the nappy can be asign of liver disease

• Persistently pale colouredstools may indicate liverdisease

• All babies with pale stools andyellow urine should be referredto a paediatrician forinvestigation

• All babies with prolongedjaundice should have a splitbilirubin test

Children’s Liver DiseaseFoundation36 Great Charles StreetBirminghamB3 3JY

Tel: 0121 212 3839Fax: 0121 212 4300Email: info@childliverdisease.orgwww.childliverdisease.org

Stool Chart

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