I am sure that in the pediatrician's consultations, along with the most serious cases, anecdotal and fun situations occur, and today we wanted to go around this last case. How do you talk about the colors (and smells) of children's poops in the consultation?
And it is that parents are "instructed" enough in prenatal classes not to be scared to see the meconium of the newborn, but little or nothing we know about the subsequent depositions of babies and children as they grow.
It is interesting to know that certain foods produce dyed poop of unusual colors and that can scare the parents being perfectly normal (come on, normal after eating beets, or Oreo cookies ...).
In the last issue of Famiped magazine we find some funny dialogues that occur between the author, Ana Martínez Rubio, pediatrician, and the parents of her patients. Here I leave one of these mysterious cases of colored poop (with a happy ending, of course):
Father.- (Very hurried) Doctor, we bring him to Nerea because he has made black poop.I ah! Yes? All right. Tell me: how black? Totally black, with red strands or were there little black things like "coffee grounds"?
Q.- The whole poop was black!
Y.- (I see 5-year-old Nerea, play quietly, tilt my head to the side, smile from ear to ear and ask innocently) Oreo cookies?
Q.- (The father opens his eyes a lot and starts to move his head between incredulous and amazed) But how black is the poop with those cookies? What will they be made of?
Well, we don't know what these cookies will be made of (we don't eat them at home), but there are other foods that can dye black stools, such as squid ink (in black rice, for example).
Garnet-pink, meanwhile, is a color that can be derived from beets, as the pediatrician tells us in another of the dialogues. As we see, the colored poops leave funny anecdotes in the consultations. Have your babies also left you any stories about it?
