Bm

When you first mentions "black spots", I thought of bananas. I don't know if he's eating a lot of bananas lately and I"m not sure how small of spots you're talking about. I know if my son doesn't chew his banana pieces very well they come out as blackish areas in the poo and also the strings from the bananas come out and they are blackish in color.

If it is from bleeding from your son, it would mean it's higher in the digestive tract that the bleeding is occurring. Such as from the stomach or small intestines. If the bleeding was from the lower intestinal tract, then there would be red in his BMs.

These are some other things that can make it be black/greenish/even dark blue.

Black licorice
Blueberries
Iron supplements
Lead
Bismuth (Pepto-bismol)

If you cannot conclude that he has been eating any of these things (oh, blood also makes it "foul" smelling, which what poo isn't foul smelling?), then I would call the nurse on call for the Pediatrician (do you have a nurse on call). Or you could call the ER to talk to one of the nurses the to get her opinion. But definitely take him in tomorrow with a sample, but I would try to talk to a professional today if possible.

Look at the diet first. Like berries will do that from the seeds. eliminate suspects and look again in two days. Also look for moodiness, fatigue, greyish look in the tissue around they eyes, possible joint pain, unusual temper, and a need to be by you all the time. My son is a low-tolerance child and sees Dr. Rosenweig. He is doing great and all the above is gone now...unless we slip up and go out the eat. then his mood is aweful and he is clinky for a couple of days until it passes.

Has he been eating raisins or beets?

Figure out what he is eating, like raisins? Grapes? Berries? Anything can change the color in children's bms.
If he has no blood, which you would know, it isn't hurting him and he is being regular going, then I wouldn't worry too much about it. If you are really concerned, call your Pediatrician on Monday but I wouldn't think it was anything to rush him in to see the Dr.
If he had blood it would be reddish or streaks of red blood.
Kids digestive tracts work so fast that there isn't a whole lot of time for them to have dried blood.
Does it smell funny?
Just think back on what he has been eating regularly.

This is probably an obvious question that you've already considered - has he eaten anything that could be showing up in his poop? When my daughter eats kiwi she has black spots in her poop...

Hi J.,

When my daughter was about 9 months old her BMs were completly black. I took her right in to the doctor. They ran tests to see if there was any blood in the stool and luckily there was not. They never could really say why they were black, but once blood was ruled out they didn't seem to worry about it. It lasted about two weeks and then her BMs were back to normal. If it were me, I would get him in, and on the day of the appointment I would try to have a some-what fresh sample for them to test. Good luck!

J.

be concerned now. it may be nothing, but you don't want to take chances