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Do anal fissures cause little red dots in stool?

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Dr. Birendra Tandan answered

It can if the fissure bleeds a little. Make sure that those dots are blodd by seeing if the turn the toilt water pink. If not then the dots are something else

Answered 3/22/2022

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