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Suggest Treatment For Blood In Stool Of A Child
Hi my 3 year old has today been passing a bizarre pink coloured stool. She has no tummy pain as such. Usually finds it difficult to pass faeces despite copious amounts of fruit and veg always passes rather hard stools. No signs of haemorrhoids. No signs of any bleeding anally. She had an apple and blackcurrant smoothie yest and other than that has not eaten anything remotely red or pink. No fever no nausea/vomitting. Worth sending stool for FOB?
Thu, 7 May 2015
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Change in poop clour to pink can be due to colouring agents in food ingested. But if you are sure that there was no obvious reason related to ingestion, it's advisable to go for a stool examination for blood.
Blood in stool can lead to pink poops. It might not be externally visible on examination.
In case of any further questions, do call back.
Welcome to HCM
Change in poop clour to pink can be due to colouring agents in food ingested. But if you are sure that there was no obvious reason related to ingestion, it's advisable to go for a stool examination for blood.
Blood in stool can lead to pink poops. It might not be externally visible on examination.
In case of any further questions, do call back.
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