Recently, a parent found that their child, who was less than three years old, had blood in his stool. The parent took the child to several local hospitals for treatment and the child still had recurrent blood in his stool. It is said that children are the heart of their parents, and parents are always anxious when their children have any illness or pain.
The child had no abdominal pain, no signs of bleeding in the anus, and no other discomfort, so the cause of the bleeding was not clear. Finally, one of the doctors suspected that there might be a problem with the child’s intestines and that a colonoscopy needed to be performed.
What exactly was the child’s disease? After intestinal cleansing and other preparations, a full colon e-colonoscopy was performed under intravenous anesthesia. It was found that the child had a polyp of about 2 cm in diameter on the rectal mucosa, with surface erosion and blood leakage, which turned out to be the culprit of the child’s blood in the stool.
In order to save the child the trouble of undergoing another colonoscopy, the endoscopist immediately performed minimally invasive treatment of the rectal polyp under endoscopy with the consent of the parents. The pathological examination of the removed polyp indicated that it was a juvenile intestinal polyp, and the child was discharged after 3 days of hospitalization with no significant discomfort and cessation of blood in the stool.
Juvenile polyps are actually misshapen polyps, which are not true tumors and occur in the colon and rectum of infants and children, and are a common cause of pediatric blood in the stool. The probability of malignancy of these polyps is very small, but long-term chronic blood loss can affect children who are in the critical period of growth and development. Therefore, if a child has unexplained bleeding in the stool, parents should not take it lightly and should take the child to a hospital with relevant technology for examination as soon as possible to avoid delaying the condition.