According to Mishra, the bacterial communities that establish in the first six to 12 months are responsible for allergy risk, ...

The digestive system begins to form by week five of pregnancy. Fetuses don't eat in the womb, but they do process nutrients through the umbilical cord. The baby's first poop is a substance called ...

An international team of scientists who spent five years studying the poo of 647 Danish babies found something astonishing. The nappy samples contained 10,000 species of virus—10 times the number of ...

A video on Weibo of a 9-month-old baby playing with and eating his own feces as his father is distracted on his phone has gone viral. The father and his son, who reside in Changchun, Jilin province of ...