Traces of Blood: Toddler
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Blood in Stool
Asked by S.K. from South Bend
on February 22, 2009
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Hi Mommas! =)
We are very concerned about my 10 year old niece, Lia. Lia was diagnosed with type 1 juvenile diabetes when she was 7. I'm telling you this because ...
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- Dear S., You might give you SIL a heads up on Dr. Merkle. If your niece has problems that aren't clean he will take the time to help figure out what is going on. ...
- My daughter, who is 8, had this happen this time last year. We took her to the doctor who did some tests and scheduled us to see a GI who did some tests all of which c...
- This happened to me when I was in about 5th grade. At first the dr said it was hemmorhoids then they did a colonoscopy and found juvenile papillomas (polyps). They w...
Blood in My 4 Month Old's Stool
Asked by A.M. from Los Angeles
on July 31, 2008
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Just starting today I have noticed blood in my baby's stool. He is still 100% breastfed. I am taking an antibiotic now for mastitus (sp?) - Keflex but it is supposed t...
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- My son had fresh blood in his stool starting around 3 months and was diagnosed with allergic proctitis. Through my own dietary changes, the best we could come up with...
- I'm not sure about your son but to help avoid taking any medication ,put cabbage leaves in your braw for the mastitis.I know it sounds crazy but it works!Good luck!
- I read through the posts- most of the moms had the same thing that happened with me and my daughter as well...inability to break down the protein in dairy, soy and bee...
Blood in Stool
Asked by A.U. from Houston
on December 1, 2006
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My daughter will be 9 months next week and when I picked her up from daycare yesterday they showed me a dirty diaper that she made and it was all blood red. It was no...
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- Hi A., I experienced something similar to this with my youngest girl when she was about 5 months. I changed her diet by putting a little cereal in her formula. Ther...
- Our daughter had similar issues. If they get constipated, they can get anal fissures which are small tears in the anus. Our ped had us put Aquaphor around her anus and...
- Hi, I don't know what the blood could be from, but I do know a great way to ease constipation. My 6 month old has been having constipation problems, and her pedi said...
Blood in the Diaper
Asked by S.G. from Indianapolis
on October 20, 2010
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My 9 month old grand-daughter, had spots of blood in her diaper and what looked like a blood clot being passed when I checked further. Her mom took her to the doctor,...
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- Blood is not ok:( It's a classic sign of food allergy, maybe milk? She needs to have some blood drawn and an allergy panel done on the blood.
- There was a recent article in our local paper about a newborn with blood in the diaper. Their problem was solved with probiotics. The initial diagnosis was that the ...
- I would probably call and talk to the doctor myself. I would be concerned. Has anyone outside of family been watching her?
Green Stool
Asked by J.M. from Boston
on January 6, 2008
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Hi there,
So we are blessed with a 3 week old son. In the past week he has been having green stool(poop) in his diaper. I have heard about there being a problem wit...
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- Before you start eliminating things in your diet, you need to know more. For example, does he have excessive gas? Reflux? Is the poop really, truly GREEN or just a ...
- I have a 4 month old and a 4 year old. Both were/are breastfed and both have produced a remarkable varitety of poop shades and both have been and are perfectly healthy...
- Hi there :) I have three breastfed babies. Green poop can usually mean a couple of things. A. Normal. Babies' poo can be funny colors. It'll be green for a...
Blood in Stool and High Fever
Asked by E.M. from Tampa
on January 5, 2010
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My husband and I went to the emergency room early this morning with my 5 week old. she was running a 101 fever and had blood in her stool. They did a bucnh of testes o...
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- My husband works in the ER and blood in stool is usually a cause for concern, unless it is red fresh blood. Fresh blood typically means a tear or wound (which will p...
- The mucus and bloody stool happened to my son as well. They diagnosed him with a milk/soy protein intolerance. I was breastfeeding, but went on a special diet and he...
- Just curious if you followed up with your pediatrician. I have heard that emergency room doctors are sometimes ill equipted to deal with babies, and a pediatrician who...
Blood in Stool!!! Help!!
Asked by N.M. from Atlanta
on March 2, 2011
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Hello. I'm new to this board. I'm looking for some answers regarding my 5 month old daughter. She is 100% breastfed, and for the last month has had blood in her stools...
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- make a list of what she eats then note the effects of these foods to her through her stool... one cause of blood in the stool is amoebiasis... if you had her checked a...
- Just one, kind of left field question: Are your nipples cracked or bleeding? Little ones can sometimes have blood in their stool if they're ingesting it while breast...
- My daughter was 3 months old before showing the same signs and it was a milk-protein allergy. Fortunately, she outgrew it and is 2 and doing well on cow's milk and al...
Mucus in Stool
Asked by L.E. from Chicago
on July 14, 2010
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hi mamas..me again!
2 days ago my daughter (18weeks) had a loose stool and yesterday she had one with some mucus (about the size of a quarter). My mom told me it w...
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- If the mucous continues or you see signs of blood, food sensitivity is definitely a high possibility. Dairy would be the first thing to cut out of both of your diets (...
- Here is a thread on the topic on LLL. I was thinking food sensitivity too, but if it was just one poop....???? http://forums.llli.org/showthread.php?t=67856
- Be glad that your doctor is taking you seriously and testing the sample you brought in. If you didn't think it was possibly a big deal you wouldn't have called them o...
Blood/ Mucus in Babies Stool
Asked by M.W. from New York
on September 5, 2009
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Last night my 4 month old had a small stool that was regular yellow for a breastfed baby. But there was also a bit of mucus w/ pinkish tinged blood and a few tiny wh...
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- We went through the same thing with my first son. And like previous posts mentioned, my son was allergic to dairy and soy, but also every other food you could imagine....
- My daughter had the same thing and it was a milk protein allergy. No dairy for me and she was fine. she grew out of it and by the time she was 1 she was ok with milk. ...
- M., Congratulations on breastfeeding your baby! It's the singular most healthy thing you can do for her. A bit late, but allergy is not going to be fun for baby...
Blood in Stool?? Help!!
Asked by S.L. from San Diego
on May 9, 2010
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My daughter is almost four months old. At her two month appointment she had the rotovirus vaccine. On that day she started to have diarreaha and it has continued since...
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- Wow, I am so sorry this is happening to your daughter and to you. I really have no advice about what may be happening, but I wanted to give a breastfeeding solution. ...
- Hi- I had to respond to you because I really feel your pain. We had a child with severe colic/Gerd and one Gastroenterologist said to do the same thing, the other sai...
- Where in her digestive system did the GI say the blood in her stool was coming from? I think that's the key. She could have something that has nothing to do with formu...
