Blood in dd's stools

[BibiThree]

Have noticed the last couple of momnths that dd sometimes passes blood in her stools. Before Christmas she was quite constipated so I put it down to her straining and possibly a little tear, but shes goes every couple of days now and there's still little streaks present.

She's veggie so gets plenty of fruit and veg daily and used to pass a stool daily, but that's slowed down over the last year.

Anyone else have experience of this or advice?

Also noticed she has what looks like a skin tag on her bum hole - about the size of a small raisin. it's skin coloured - should I ge this checked out?

My DD2 (18 mths) sometimes has blood on surface of her poo but only if they're really hard lumpy poos. I put it down to a little tear ... I think there's a difference between the poo being very dark and therefore maybe having blood in it (quite serious) and there being blood on the surface of the poo. If the poo is soft and there's blood then I'd go to drs ... I think I'd get the skin tag seen anyway so ask about both.

If I were you I would get it checked out just to reassure yourself more than anything. The skin tag could be bleeding, one of my ds's has a tiny skin tag in that area and I haven't worried about.
I think as a general rule, fresh blood from an anal fissure or tear tends to be bright red, whereas more worrying internal bleeding would usually be dark red.
I'm not medically qualified though, so would check with my gp if I was you

check for threadworms. I thought dd had a tear but it was actually worms. treat with ovex and bleeding cleared up