Studies indicate it is contracted by fewer than 1 in every 500 infants. When a child shows signs of having an attack of intussusception, he or she should be taken to a hospital as soon as possible. Symptoms you are likely to notice Intussusception typically strikes without warning. In most cases, an infant having an attack feels acute abdominal pain that leads to screaming and drawing the knees up to the chest. The child usually vomits and turns pale as well.
Attacks come periodically.
Between them the child often calms and may seem to recover. Subsequent and still more severe attacks tend to bring straining to expel fecal matter, which if expelled will contain blood and mucus and thus resemble red jelly. Symptoms your physician may observe A physician might first note that the abdomen is swollen and hurts when touched even lightly. The physician also might feel the presence of a firm, rounded mass under the stomach wall on the upper right side. Conclusive diagnosis is made with a barium enema.