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Blood in stools

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Peaches6 · 05/01/2021 15:37

Has anyone experienced this? My 18 mo has been doing poos with bright red blood since Friday.

I took her to see her GP yesterday who said it was probably just an anal fissure and sent her off with a stool softener.

I just had a call from nursery to say my LO did a soft poo with loads of blood.

Should I call her GP again? Don't want to be annoying but kinda worried if there was lots of blood...

Thank you all in advance

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nocoolnamesleft · 05/01/2021 15:41

Would be reassuring to know the poo was hard, and thus likely to cause a fissure. Worrying signs would be blood mixed in with the poo, rather than in the surface of the poo, or darker blood.

IwillrunIwillfly · 05/01/2021 19:18

Its definitely not being annoying to contact the gp again, especially if its quite a lot of blood. Most likely is due to a small tear, but needs to be checked out.

Norah8 · 05/01/2021 19:21

Bright red blood isn't always a issue less, likely than black.
This might sound weird but he hasn't eaten red jelly

Peaches6 · 05/01/2021 22:16

The nursery saved the nappy and it didn't look like a lot of blood, so will wait to see if it stops happening in a couple days and go back to the gp if not.

Thank you for all your responses!

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