Infants and young children have positive stool occult blood test

The baby's stool is a more intuitive reflection of the physical condition. Many parents will use the stool to determine whether the baby has health problems. Some babies have bleeding stools. At this time, parents will take the baby to the doctor for examination and find that the stool test is positive for occult blood, which means that there is a virus in the baby's stool. Drug treatment is needed to better cure it. So what does it mean that the infant's stool occult blood is positive?

It could be due to the child's allergies. If your child is still breastfeeding, you should not eat seafood, beef, mutton, and nuts. Milk, eggs, these are allergens. If the child has been weaned, then the child should not eat the above foods. If there is no occult blood in the stool most of the time, there is no problem as the child is developing normally. If the stool is positive for occult blood for a long time, food allergies should be considered, and the mother should be checked for health reasons to see if she has any food allergies.

If the baby's stool occult blood test result is weakly positive, it means that the baby's stool contains red blood cells, indicating that there is trace bleeding in a certain part of the baby's gastrointestinal tract. Clinically, it is concluded that the main cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in babies is enteritis, especially some babies with long-term diarrhea are more likely to have problems such as weakly positive or positive stool occult blood.

When a person has certain gastrointestinal diseases, the diagnosis can be confirmed by examining the composition of the stool, and fecal occult blood test is also a commonly used examination method in clinical practice. Relatively speaking, this examination method is not difficult, but some parents do not know what it means when they find that the fecal occult blood is weakly positive during examination. In response to this situation, we will introduce relevant knowledge to you below.

1. Occult blood in stool is also called fecal occult blood, which means there is blood in the stool, and this blood component is mainly red blood cells. If the baby's fecal occult blood test shows a weak positive result, it means that there is bleeding in a certain part of the intestine, but when the fecal occult blood test result is weakly positive, the color of the stool is generally not affected, so no blood can be seen with the naked eye, and it is difficult to see the presence of red blood cells under a microscope. In other words, the amount of bleeding in the baby's stomach and intestines is very small. Clinically, it is concluded that the main cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in babies is enteritis, especially some babies with long-term diarrhea are more likely to have problems such as weak positive or positive fecal occult blood.

2. If the result of occult blood in the baby's stool is weakly positive, and the baby also has symptoms such as diarrhea, loss of appetite, and indigestion, it can basically be determined to be enteritis. However, there are also many pathogenic bacteria that can cause enteritis in babies. Therefore, it is best for parents to continue to conduct further examinations on the baby in order to confirm the type of pathogen as soon as possible and use targeted drugs to treat the baby. In addition, it should be noted that for some babies, the mother's nipples may ulcerate and bleed when they are breastfed, and the baby swallows the mother's blood mixed with milk, which may also cause weak positive occult blood in the stool, but this will not affect the baby's health.

The above is the meaning of weak positive occult blood in baby's stool introduced to parents and friends today. I believe that after reading it, everyone has a better understanding of this knowledge. Finally, parents and friends should be reminded that if the child has occult blood in the stool due to other diseases, don’t worry too much. As long as the child is cured, the occult blood test results will turn negative.