Your child has blood in his stool

Children's metabolism is very fast, which is mainly manifested in frequent excretion, etc. Children's excretion problems are also relatively common and will have a great impact on their physical development. For example, children's difficulty in defecation due to various reasons makes parents feel very anxious. Some children also experience bleeding when they have bowel movements. Let’s take a look at what causes children to have bleeding when they have bowel movements. I hope everyone can understand it.

The first thing to say is that there are many types of bloody stools in children, so when you find blood in a child's stool, you should carefully observe the amount of bleeding, color, whether the blood is mixed with feces or accompanied by mucus, and also pay attention to whether the child has symptoms such as fever, abdominal pain, pale complexion, vomiting, cold sweat, etc. If the child does not have a lot of blood in his stool and does not feel pain in his stomach or anus, and everything else is normal, there is no need to be too nervous about the occurrence of blood in the stool. Because the occurrence of bloody stools in children is a normal physiological phenomenon caused by the continuous maturation of the children's immune system and the continuous proliferation of lymph follicles. As the immune system gradually matures, the symptoms of bloody stools will gradually disappear and no treatment is required.

However, when children have a lot of blood in their stools and are accompanied by symptoms such as abdominal pain and vomiting, parents should pay attention. This is likely to be a digestive tract disease in children. Parents need to take their children to see a doctor in time, identify the cause, and provide timely treatment.

Causes of bloody stools in children

As mentioned earlier, when children have bloody stools, the first thing to pay attention to is the amount of blood in the stool and whether there are symptoms such as vomiting blood. Secondly, the cause of the blood in the stool should be determined based on the child's age. Common causes of blood in the stool include:

1. Digestive tract diseases

Specialized medical personnel have studied the majority of cases of bloody stools in children and found that the occurrence of bloody stools in children is related to gastrointestinal diseases, such as acute gastritis, hemorrhagic necrotizing enteritis, etc.

2. Blood diseases

In addition to digestive tract diseases, the causes of bloody stools in children may also be related to blood diseases, such as hemophilia, leukemia, and allergic purpura.

3. Other systemic infectious diseases

For newborns, blood in the stool may be related to swallowing blood from the mother's birth canal. In non-newborn children, it may be related to sepsis, typhoid fever, and swallowing of bleeding gums.