Mucus in child's stool

[MamaLew15]

Hey, wondering if anyone can help, I don't really have many other mum friends to ask.
She turned 4 in October
Eats a pretty varied diet. Loves fruit and veg (just doesn't eat chicken) has no intolerances or allergies that I'm aware of. Doesn't currently have a cold 🤯
But over the past few days she has had mucus in her stool. A big enough amount to notice. Same colour as her stool. Not red.
She passes stool once a day every evening.
This happened about a year ago but the GP wasn't worried. It went when we upped her liquid intake but now it's come back. Liquid intake is alright. Not terrible.
Any ideas? Is it normal? For my own mental health I'm trying not to Google.

My 4yo DS gets this too. He also opens bowels 1-2 per day and the consistency varies. He often complains of stomach pain right before he goes to the toilet, I sometimes worry about something like celiac (he is quite pale). But I also think he might just feel wind pain before he goes. It's great to hear that when you told your GP they weren't worried as I've been wondering if I should bring him. Anything I looked up just said about fluids/dehydration and that when stools are harder to pass the body creates mucus to help. But it doesn't only happen when he's constipated /hard stools so it's confusing.

@AmberBeaker Hey, thanks so much for the reply! It is nice to know I'm not alone. I did end up contacting my GP about it in the end last week and they have ordered a stool sample. Im just waiting for the results to come back. Typically, there was no mucus during the collection 🙄
I have realised that the start of it this time did coincide with when she had oral antibiotics recently so I'm not sure if that has something to do with it. I make sure she has yogurt with live cultures in but maybe I need to supplement with a probiotic too 🤔
I'll let you know if we learn anything from the results. Hope your DS is okay :) x

@MamaLew15 @AmberBeaker Hi, did you ever figure out what it was? My son has been having mucus in his stools over the past month and we’re not sure what’s causing it.

Hi @Moka784 im not the OP but my DD had this when she was little; it randomly started aged 3, she was diagnosed with “toddler diarrhoea” before finally being diagnosed aged 6 with coeliac disease. Is there any bowel condition in the family? Ask GP to do a stool test to check for any bugs that may be causing it in the first instance and go from there

Hi @Hickorydickorydock74, thanks for the reply. I will look into that. He’s almost 5 and this happened about 3 weeks after he had some sort of GI bug/diarrhoea. But he no longer has diarrhoea, in fact his stool ranges from soft to hard but with mucus. We did do a stool sample for parasite and ecoli when it first started but that was negative. We have no family history of anything and also he’s never had allergies and eats a pretty decent diet for a 5 year old. He does seem kind of sensitive to dairy and maybe bread now though.

Hey sorry for delay in replying, sorry not much help but we never found out more about this but it did go away! He hasn't had mucus in stool for months now except if he's blocked up for a day or two. And he used to complain of pain in his stomach before every bowel motion but doesn't anymore. Maybe for him it was a developmental thing. Hope you get sorted

@AmberBeaker Thanks for the reply! Do you remember how long it lasted? I hope it just goes away soon too.

I think mucus in a stool is usually bile that has not had time to be reabsorbed into the intestines. I get that occasionally when I have a stomach bug. Antibiotics always used to turn my toddler’s bum into Vesuvius (sorry for the mental image) and it usually calmed down a day or two after finishing the antibiotics. If your dd is still passing wet/mucus stools make sure she is drinking enough, toddlers bodies dehydrate quickly and they’re sometimes not understanding how they are thirsty.

glad your doctor is on the ball and going the check a stool sample, that should pick out if there is something else going on