Bloody mucus in newborn nappy

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My 3 week old formula fed baby has been having bloody mucus in his dirty nappies for since Monday. He also strains and pulls his legs up a lot.

We went to the Drs on Tuesday and he had a dirty nappy when we were in seeing the GP so the GP got to see one first hand. He examined my baby and said he has some nappy rash and also some irritation/fissures just inside his back passage which is where the blood is coming from. The Dr wasn't too concerned and said to come back on Friday if it is still happening.

It's still happening so we will be going back to Dr tomorrow.

I wondered if anyone else has experienced these symptoms with a newborn? And if so, what was the cause and the solution?

Just looking for others experiences with these symptoms so I can discuss in full with the Dr tomorrow. Thanks 🙏

My friends baby had this and was diagnosed as dairy intolerant at around 7 weeks old, she breastfed and went dairy free and the blood stopped within a few days he now a year old and still unable to have dairy.

I would ask about dairy free formula

This happened to DD2 a few times in her first two weeks. We were sent by NHS 24 to the children's hospital. They were satisfied that she was otherwise well and said it was most likely one of two things- a cows milk allergy or similar (she was ebf) or absolutely nothing.

If it were an allergy/ intolerance it would keep happening and to bring her back if it did- which it did. They said to give it one more wait and see as it may just Be "one of those things" and surely enough it stopped.

For a while DD2 had reflux and I was worried it may be a mild intolerance we were missing, but around seven weeks that passed and she has been fine since.

I'm not saying this to suggest you shouldn't push for further investigation- it was terrifying. Just hoping it gives you some reassurance that it may all be nothing. The one thing which really reassured me was a doctor who said that yes blood looks bad and is scary, but she wasn't going to bleed to death from it- so there was time to investigate cautiously what it was.

I hope all is well with your baby. You know him best though so don't be afraid to push for treatment if you feel it is needed.

We have switched to a different brand of formula and he is not having as many dirty nappies a day, the colic type symptoms have vastly improved and although there is still blood and mucus it's not as bad as it was and not at every dirty nappy.

Just using a standard formula so not anything special, but he was having 5-8 dirty nappies a day with the previous brand so perhaps that has just irritated him and cause the nappy rash and fissures.

Hopefully it clears up now he is going less and seems happier on the new formula but if not then we will need to consider CMPA and will need to go back to the Dr for more advice.