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Siman 81 – Child’s excrement

186. Once a child is 6 or 7 you must distance yourself from his excrement and urine. Younger than that depends upon when the child can eat a k’zayis daggan bichday achillas prass. (ShA 1 – MB 1 – ShaH 5)

187. The above rule is min hadin, but it is good and proper to distance even from excrement of an eight-day old baby. (MB 3)