Eight-month-old baby has blood in his poop

Don't think that only adults will have symptoms of bloody stools. In fact, children can also have bloody stools due to bleeding in the digestive tract or problems with the digestive tract, especially eight-month-old babies. Parents will be very worried if there is blood in the stool. First of all, we need to determine whether the baby has eaten some red food recently, or whether the stool is too dry and hard, causing anal rupture. We need to find out the cause and then treat the child.

There are many reasons why babies have bloody stools, and gastrointestinal bleeding can cause bloody stools.

When a baby has bloody stools, you should first carefully observe the color and amount of blood in the stool, whether it is mixed with the baby's feces or accompanied by mucus, and also pay attention to other symptoms such as fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, pale complexion, irritability, cyanosis, cold sweat, etc.

If an infant has jelly-like bloody stools accompanied by paroxysmal crying (abdominal pain) and vomiting, the possibility of acute intussusception should be considered. If diarrhea with blood and mucus or bloody stools is accompanied by fever, it is likely acute hemorrhagic enteritis. If there is a large amount of purple-red blood in the stool, it usually comes from the small intestine. Common causes are Meckel's diverticulum and intestinal duplication. Normal or dry and hard stools are often accompanied by blood, and the most common cause is anal fissure.

If the amount of bleeding in gastritis or stress ulcer is small, it will appear as black stools; if the amount of bleeding is large, it will appear as purple-red bloody stools, and fresh or dark red blood may also be vomited. In addition to the common gastrointestinal diseases mentioned above, systemic bleeding diseases such as thrombocytopenic purpura, allergic purpura, vitamin K deficiency, and severe infections such as sepsis can also cause bloody stools.

In addition, it is worth noting that the stool may be dark brown or red after consuming colored foods such as spinach, tomatoes, and watermelons. Black stools may also appear after taking iron supplements or animal blood, but these are not gastrointestinal bleeding and cannot be confused with bloody stools.

In short, if a baby has bloody stools, it is crucial to go to the hospital immediately to find out the cause of the bleeding and provide symptomatic treatment in time.