The 2 year old sonny had blood in his stool for nearly half a year, and sonny’s mother carefully found that every time sonny had a small piece of red flesh coming out of the anus, so mom and dad took sonny to the hospital anorectal clinic, the doctor after anal examination, anal finger examination, pediatric anoscopy clearly diagnosed that sonny’s disease is “juvenile rectal polyps The doctor’s diagnosis was “juvenile rectal polyp”. The parents of Sonny were shocked to hear this, but after the doctor’s detailed explanation, the stone finally fell to the ground. So, sonny was admitted to the anorectal department and received a rectal polyp ligation within a few minutes, and was discharged on the third day after recovering under the care of his aunts and uncles in the anorectal department.
So, here’s the question – what is a juvenile polyp?
Juvenile polyps are usually found in children under 10 years old, the average age of onset of juvenile polyps is 5.0-7.4 years old, and there are more males than females, about 80% of polyps are located in rectum and sigmoid colon, and very few are located in cecum and ascending colon. The clinical symptoms are mostly painless blood in the stool. Because most juvenile polyps are tipped, when the tip is long, the pink polyp can be seen to come out of the anus during stool. Long-term chronic blood loss can lead to pediatric anemia. If the polyp is located high, it may also cause abdominal pain in children.
Most juvenile polyps occur within 10 cm from the anus. Once a child has blood in the stool, parents must pay attention to the symptoms and take the child to a regular hospital for examination in a timely manner. Generally, rectal polyps can be clearly diagnosed under the doctor’s finger examination, if the polyp is not touched or seen on finger examination or anoscopy, further pediatric colonoscopy is required.