2 year old with piles :-(

[lotsafun]

hi, ive posted on here a while back about my 2 year old having a hard time with pooing, she goes every 2-3 days now but she finds it very painful and screams and holds on for dear life when shes going. Our health visitor suggested calfig syrup but this has no effect on her, and despite her having a excellent diet nothing is helping. She just had another poo now and when i was cleaning her up i saw that there was blood in the feaces and she had a pink bulbous fleshy lump around her back passage. Is this common in children? can the doctor give anything to help?

[redcrx]

Well I would certainly make an appt at gp for her asap. They should be able to help somehow.

[China Doll]

Iis that a an anal fissure? (or at least it sounds like something I was writing about earlier which was a fissure)... Anyhow, yes, a doctor can help, her stools might be hard and these can cause fissures so if she's straining and it's hurting her at all then the quack can give her something to soften the stool.

[LoftyLottie]

Yes the doctor can give her something to help, both for the hard time pooing and for the lump which probably was caused by all the straining and is a type of pile. I don't know how common it is in children.

You need to take her to the doctors. I am not sure whether a two year old can use preparations like Anusol, which shrink the pile down.

[lotsafun]

thanks guys, ive managed to get her a appointment for monday :-)

[Sqad]

It´s not piles.

[Jemisa]

When we get the urge to go to the loo (no/2) a natural process happens to most of us The body secreets a lubrication in the passage to help us pass the stool. but in your daughters case it seems that its not happening and its dry and painful (poor mite) so she may need a little help.
Liquid parrafin helps (from your chemist) or Fibogel which is made up into an orange drink..

jem

[LoftyLottie]

OK. It's not piles but it's probably a perianal haematoma, which is often called an external pile, even though it's not really piles. Sorry Sqad. (I know, because I had one once!)

[Katie~77]

Get her to a doctor. My nephew suffered like this and three years on still has fear of going to the loo. It needs sorting out and soon.x

[LoftyLottie]

I agree with Kate. A doctor as soon as possible as this good lead to a problem where your little one just is terrified of going to the loo and will refuse. This then leads to further problems with leakages. I know a little boy this happened to.

http://www.patient.co...ation-in-Children.htm

[Sqad]

Lofty...rad my lips...."It is not a pile or a perianal haematoma"....it´s a Fissure in Ano

2year olds do not get piles.

LUV yer though!!

[LoftyLottie]

Oh OK. If you say so! ;o)

You are a pain in the ar$e though! x

[LoftyLottie]

You are right though! (damn it!)

[Sqad]

Lofty....let´s run away together.

[boxtops]

lotsafun, it sounds to me as if you shouldn't be waiting until Monday to get your daughter examined. Do you have a walk-in centre near you, where you can just turn up, save your daughter suffering more pain for another few days until you see the GP? I am surprised the surgery made the appointment for nearly a week ahead in a case like this, surely you told them it was urgent and she's only 2?

[lotsafun]

unfortunetly monday morn was the soonest i could get in to see the doctor :-( I checked a hour later to see if the lump was still there and it had gone but its still worrying me to what it could be.