Constipation is a concern if bowel movements are hard, infrequent, contain blood or mucus or seem to be causing pain. Diarrhea can be more difficult to detect because a baby's stool is naturally ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Mucus in stool is normal, but it's not usually visible to the naked eye. When it is ...

A test for fecal occult blood looks for blood in your poop, or feces. It can be a sign of a problem in your digestive system, such as a growth, or polyp, or cancer in the colon or rectum.

reported a 0.47% incidence of NEC in infants who had only occult blood in the stools, a 63% incidence in those who had only gross blood, and a 90% incidence in those with occult blood progressing ...

He shares his story to raise awareness and offer hope. As John Johnson trained for his second marathon, he noticed blood in his stool and wondered if he had hemorrhoids from “training pretty ...