food and nutrition


Produce Enough Bile

Question: How urgent a problem is this? My breastfed 5 month old daughter had seemed slightly constipated all week, straining a lot and producing only very small (but soft and mostly normal coloured) stools. Today she's produced 2 very pale coloured poos and I just read this could be an indicator that the liver is not producing enough bile to aid digestion. The doctor's is closed now, and won't be open till morning. Do you think this is urgent enough to call an emergency doctor or should I wait until the morning? How serious is the bile problem and how is it treated?

Answer: relax, doesn't sound like a problem, give her a little apple juice


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