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Blood in poop
Hello Dr my baby turned six months today. She is exclusively on breast milk. She generally does poop every day but yesterday she didn't and before that she used to poop for 3 times for 2-3 days..Today she poop and had red jelly kind of thing in her poop. Can You tell me is it matter of concern? Why it has happened. Attaching picture for reference.please help.
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Consult a pediatrician for proper assessment n treatment.
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If baby is highly irritable with excessive cry, folding his legs while cry and passes red gelly like ke stools - immediately consult and go for ultrasound abdomen.
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if baby is passig only slight amount of blood in stools without above symptoms -go for stool routine test and then consult.
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Need to consult seem to be dysentery
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If there is excessive cry or vomiting then do ultrasound scan and if there is no abdominal distension or excessive cry then do stool routine microscopic examination.
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if any danger sign seen go for vedio consultation or visit to pediatrician
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Blood stained with jelly like stool, yes its matter of concern...usually uncommon to hv blood in stool on exclusive BF....
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so go for abdomen sonography...
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Dr. Anurag Mohta
Pediatrician
11 yrs exp
Indore
Matter of concern.. yes if it's recurrent or associated with irritability. Watch for frequency of stool and it's consistency.
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1) if it's just one of incidence... wait and watch
2) if irritable then ultrasound abdomen is required
3) if associated with increased frequency, needs treatment for dysentery
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Dr. Shiv Dubey
Pediatrician
15 yrs exp
Bhopal
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Is the baby having any symptoms like pain abdomen, excessive cry, decreased feeding, vomiting etc
If the baby is asymptomatic doing fine , you can wait.
If these are present better to consult a pediatrician
Hope it helps
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