Bleeding with poos

[janpa]

DD (aged 4 yrs) has started bleeding when she poos. Not gallons down the cistern but when I/she wipes her bottom there is blood on the paper. I can't face taking her to the doctor, as we seem to have lived there for the last few weeks. It hasn't put her off pooing, in fact she still names all her poos according to their size and who they look like! I'm assuming she did a big one which cut her & now when she goes it opens up the cut again. What do you think?

I would get her checked out. It's probably nothing, but better that way round than leave it and find out later you should have.

I would get her checked out too.

If there is no blood in the poo itself and only a trace, bright red, when you wipe her then it is probably as you think. Treatment (if any) would be a cream (eg anusol) and try to ensure poo is easy to do so keep up with fruit, liquids, fibre etc. But if in doubt, or if it persists/doesnt resolve fairly soon get it checked out.

Yes, the poo isn't bloody, it is her bottom bleeding. Even then it is only a bit of blood. I'll keep putting on Epiderm (like Vaseline) for a while when she goes and see if that helps.

I don't want to frighten you and I'm sure it will turn out to be just a small tear as you say, but I have just had an op for bowel cancer. I'd had my symptoms (excess toileting) for 7 months before I got referred to the hospital but only after I'd started tests was there any bleeding. Such that there was wasn't in the poo itself (sorry if TMI). So what I'm trying to say is the bleeding was the later stage of symptoms, not the earlier.

They just caught it in time because it had just started to spread. Had I waited any longer it might have been a different story.

Now there is a world of difference between a child of 4 and an old lady of 47. I know that. But knowing what I know now, I would be investigating this sooner, rather than later.