Blood Streaks In Toddler Stools

The blood seen can range from bright red brisk bleeding to dark blood mixed with faeces to black or plum coloured faeces melaena.

Blood streaks in toddler stools. Blood loss is usually minimal and the tear typically heals quickly with home treatment. Stomach ulcer diverticular disease and diverticulitis. The most common cause is a hard stool poop poo that occurs with constipation causing a small tear in the baby s back passage anus that then bleeds. Abnormalities of the gut.

Anal fissures usually occur due to constipation and hard stools but can also develop with persistent diarrhea. This is more common in children aged younger than 2 years and in males. The amount may vary from minimal recurrent episodes to a large shock producing haemorrhage. 4 5 the patient usually reports bright red blood in the stools.

If your child has an anal fissure you may notice streaks of bright red blood on the stool or the toilet paper after wiping. Blood thinning medicine like warfarin or aspirin angiodysplasia broken blood vessels in the gut. Blood in stool is a sign of any digestive trouble or a gastrointestinal infection in kids. This is a common condition in children and is usually not serious seeing the slightest streak of blood in your child s stool can make a mother to panic and stress.

The blood characteristically appears as a few red streaks or flecks on the outside of the stool. Bleeding is severe or there are clots. In young children various abnormalities of the gut or the gut wall may cause rectal bleeding. Dark blood without pain.

Bleeding in the stomach or gut can be from injury or a side effect of blood thinning medicine like warfarin or aspirin. This is the cause in 90 of children with blood in the stools. Blood in the stool is usually not a serious problem in young children but. A strep skin infection around the anus can also cause blood streaked stools.

If also has bloody diarrhea a gut bacterial infection may be the cause. Examples are shigella. Your child seems weak faint or very sick. What causes a baby or toddler to have bright blood in the stool poop poo there are a number of reasons a baby may have bright red blood in stool poop poo or streaky blood in the poop poo.

Anal fissures usually are caused by passage of a large or hard stool. Dark blood or poo with tummy pain or cramps. Blood in toddler stool can look different depending on the cause. Seeing blood on your child s stool can be frightening and alarming.

An angiodysplasia may also cause non visible occult blood loss see below. Meckel s diverticulum should always be excluded in a child presenting with massive painless rectal bleeding.