Bit worried about babys upset tummy

[reren]

My almost 10 month old has been having increasingly messy nappies over the last two days and the last two nappies have been dark in colour and a bit mucousy (apologies for the disgusting detail). He seems a little subdued but ate all 3 meals w usual gusto and is pretty chipper - did usual happy shouting all thru dinner!

He has been getting a tooth through - but its his 6th tooth and i havent noticed anything unusual previously when he's been teething?

What worried me a bit was the dark colour - very dark brown almost black? We were away over weekend and he had a couple of prepackaged pasta sauces he hadnt tried before. But the last 24 hours has been food he is used to. Should i be feeding him something special/ taking him to doctors. He's still breastfed evenings and mornings and has had some extra milk today and lots of water (as usual cause he loves drinking out of his sippy cup)

Any ideas/tips? Should i be worried by the poo!?

[Fidgetsmum]

What they eat can have a huge impact on size, consistency and colour of their poo. First time my son had any spinach (and it wasn't much at all) his poos a couple of days later were reeeeaaalllly dark.

But. Check the ingredients of the pasta sauce and then to put your mind at rest, perhaps book an appointment with the GP. If there's mucous, that implies irritation maybe. Might be worth just getting checked out.

[Norfolkvillas]

Hi reren, In my (limited) experience, if there's really something wrong, you'll know about it. My son started picking up tummy bugs of varying intensity on a regular basis at about 10 months - some were just a long run of grim nappies, where he was cheery throughout (even if I wasn't!), others were obviously really making him feel unwell - he was very very subdued and clingy. For what it's worth, my advice is if he seems cheery in himself, just make sure he's getting enough fluids, stick to his usual diet, and don't worry too much. For my son, 10 months represented a bit of a threshold of new levels of mobility and hence new levels of germ exposure.

I do now give him an infant probiotic supplement daily, and I think that may be helping with his overall digestive health - health matters on lship lane have several brands - udo's choice seemed to me to be the best.

Hope this helps!