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What Causes Sore Stomach With White String In Stools Of A Child?

Hi my name is Laura i have a three year old son who has been complainin g of a sore stomach on and off for a week but in good form no temp eating and drinking normal, but this morning he had a bowel movement which caused him to cry as he said it was sore when looking at his poo i noticed long white stringing stuff in it what does this mean please help.
Mon, 4 Apr 2016
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hi,
welcome to this forum.
Can understand your concerns.

The symptoms that you have told can appear in acute gastroentritis, or worm infection.

In acute gastroenteritis, there if usually fever, pain abdomen, vomiting, loose tools can be present or not. Inform infection, there is chances of loose tools.

In my opinion, you should give Albendazole syrup to get rid of worms. An antibiotic like ofloxacin should be given to treat infection.

If there is no improvement in 24 hours, then a stool routine microscopy should be done.

I hope this will help you.
Take care.
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What Causes Sore Stomach With White String In Stools Of A Child?

hi, welcome to this forum. Can understand your concerns. The symptoms that you have told can appear in acute gastroentritis, or worm infection. In acute gastroenteritis, there if usually fever, pain abdomen, vomiting, loose tools can be present or not. Inform infection, there is chances of loose tools. In my opinion, you should give Albendazole syrup to get rid of worms. An antibiotic like ofloxacin should be given to treat infection. If there is no improvement in 24 hours, then a stool routine microscopy should be done. I hope this will help you. Take care.