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; if he's eating spinach they're green and

stringy and spinachy looking. We have been seeing some mucous for the

first time I can recall. Most of the time his poops look pretty well

digested, but when we introduced broccoli they were less digested, and

there was a lot of mucous.

I would welcome any advice about what we should do about the bloody

poop. Is this something to be very concerned about? Should we see a

doctor? Can it wait til Monday when I can reach the DAN's office? The

pediatrician wouldn't have any clue what to do about the diet and the

other GI stuff, of course.

Suzanne