I don’t normally eat beets but had some last night. This afternoon I had what appeared to be bloody “stool.” My mind raced as I checked off the possible causes: intestinal cancer, parvovirus, ebola, broken glass slicing me from stem to stern, or God’s own hemorhoid bursting. I hoped to at least get my pants up before I bled out so I could die with some dignity.
An hour later, still not dead, I remembered the beets and how they have fooled me like this before when the red color passed through me intact.
Goddamn beets.
So I had a Shamrock Shake so the green color will mix with the red beet juice and everything will be brown again.
Heh, whoops. I accidentally did that to my husband a couple months ago. He hadn’t ever had beets, I love them, so I roasted a couple fresh beets for us. Apparently I don’t have that issue where the color passes in my urine - and frankly I’d never heard of it before - but he does. Fortunately he figured it out before freaking out too much. :smack:
My dad was fed beets a few days before he was scheduled to have surgery. While he enjoyed eating the beets, he did hope that all the red color progressed out before he went to the hospital, so that he wouldn’t have to explain it to the nursing staff.
HeeHee! That’s one of the things my inner 9 year old likes about beets! If I eat enough of them my pee turns pink too. In lesser amounts my poop is a magenta color that leaks into the bowl. Gross? You bet!
When I was scheduled to have surgery, I was given a very limited diet. I was not supposed to eat beef for a couple of days beforehand, and then the day before I was supposed to be on a clear liquid diet…and I wasn’t supposed to drink anything with red dye in it (Kool Aid, Jello, etc.).
