Positive fecal occult blood in infants may be caused by physiological factors such as recent diet of infants, as well as pathological factors such as gastrointestinal bleeding and enteritis.
1. Physiological factors: If infants have recently eaten pig liver, pig blood, duck blood and other foods, they may have positive fecal occult blood, which is a normal physiological phenomenon.
2. Pathological factors: if infants have gastrointestinal bleeding, they may also have positive fecal occult blood. Gastrointestinal bleeding is usually caused by inflammation and mechanical injury in the digestive tract; some infants with positive fecal occult blood may also have enterocolitis, which is usually accompanied by diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms.
Infants with positive fecal occult blood may also have other causes, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, complete the examination to determine the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or therapy.