Re: Need advice: Sudden constipation, blood in stool

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> Tom is 20 days SCD, and before SCD his poops were mushy pudding. They

> have slowly become more formed, but were still quite soft. This

> morning he cried when trying to poop, and was obviously straining. We

> finally gave him a suppository, and when the poop came out, it was a

> solid log of little pellets, with some bright red blood right at the

> end where the suppository was stuck in it. The blood seemed to be

> inside the stool, not just on the outside part. There was also some

> mucous, which we've seen more of in the past week.

>

> Was this likely to be from just a small fissure from straining? Should

> I be concerned? What should we do? I cannot add any more foods to his

> diet and I am hesitant to really take any away, his diet is too

> limited already. He's only eating one or two vegetables and a meat and

> an oil at a time (we rotate).

>

> Since we started the SCD his poops have gradually gotten a little bit

> formed, but they are still quite muchy and soft most of the time.

> Since he eats so few foods, his poops take on the consistency of the

> vegetable he's eating - if he's eating beets, they are slippery,

> densem reddish pellety logs; i

The medical term for the passage of red or maroon colored stools is

" hematochezia. "

T " False " hematochezia

Several different types of food with natural or artificial coloring may cause

red colored

stools, which looks like hematochezia. These can include:

tomato juice or soup

large amounts beets

A physician should be consulted immediately if red or maroon colored stools can

not be

attributed to a benign cause such as a food.

Carol F.

SCD 6 years, celiac