Stool has bloody mucus

[blevens]

My son is 6 month old. For about the past 2 weeks he has had very frequent runny stools with a mucus consistancy tinged with blood at times. It's very slimy and has no odor. He has two teeth on the bottom and I believe he is trying to cut some teeth on the top. I have 3 other children and don't recall this every happening with them.

[Renee Radenberg]

It is good you are going to the MD for him to get looked at due to his stools and the rash he has. Breastfeed children have looser stools; however, blood is in it so he needs to be checked. Best of luck.

[bidcirco]

Hi, my 3yr old daughter has multiple food allergies, and a metabolic disorder. She had bloody/mucusy stools from 8 weeks on, still does sometimes, but it seems to happen from ingesting something she is allergic to, or from sugar, which she can't metabolize at all. Have you started solids? He could very well be allergic to something. He is a good size, so it seems that it would be something recent bothering him, as well as it has been just the last two weeks. I doubt it has anything to do with the teething though. My daughter also had frequent, wet stools from the time we introduced solids. ( We then wnet on to find out about the allergies, and then the sugar disorder.) Hope this is some help. Please feel free to ask me any questions. Good luck.

[blevens]

Thanks for your response. We have started cereal but not very often. He hasn't taken to it very well. He is strickly a breast fed baby so maybe something I'm eating is bothering him. He has his 6 month check up tomorrow, I'm just wondering if I should save a stool sample for the doctor? I forgot to mention that he also has a very fine rash all over his entire body. It showed up about the same time the weird stool did. He was born with baby soft skin but now it's rough and mealy feeling. Don't know if the two are related but all of this has been really bothering me. He seems very uncomfortable all the time and I can tell he is just not himself.