11 year old boy. Blood on toilet paper

[magiceyes78]

Hello. My 11 year old son has suffered from constipation from being a baby. He has complained of slight belly ache for a couple of days now & this morning her ran to tell me he saw a small bit of blood on the toilet paper after he had being for a poo. I am hoping this is just constipation?

If it's fresh red blood then the most likely cause is a small tear from pass g hard poos due to constipation. Is he on any treatment?

It was bright red & fresh so that's what I was thinking & he was on senokot for a while but not now.

I'm having similar with my daughter. She's 8 and had intermittent periods of blood in her poo, normally after a large movement. I've been worried sick about it but doctor says constipation. I think I need to keep her on movicol for longer than I am so maybe it's the same for your son?

Sounds like he needs to increase his constipation treatment. I presume he's on laxido/movicol? Increase it so his poos are soft and mushy so the tear can heal back up.

www.eric.org is useful, if you haven't seen it yet

Probably piles if he strains a lot. I get them sometimes. Occasionally one bleeds.