Blood in stool

[Drogba]

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Make sure to ask your patients who claim to have blood in their stool if they've recently eaten beets as this can cause a false positive. 😳

 

[Agent Splat]

Make sure to ask your patients who claim to have blood in their stool if they've recently eaten beets as this can cause a false positive. 😳

<------- was thought to have hematuria as a baby because of this. Way to go, grandma.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Uh oh. 😱 Can I add pepto bismol to the mix. I concluded I had colon cancer once -- I used to be a bit of a hypochondriac. 😳

 

[Drogba]

Haha I was legitimately terrified for a little while until I figured out what was going on.

 

[coffeebythelake]

Make sure to ask your patients who claim to have blood in their stool if they've recently eaten beets as this can cause a false positive. 😳

This should be a PSA

 

[Nikki2002]

wow as if i needed another reason not to eat beets

 

[Ashers]

wow as if i needed another reason not to eat beets

Just what I was thinking.

Now, do carrots do anything like this?

 

[Nikki2002]

Just what I was thinking.

Now, do carrots do anything like this?

yeah if you *WAY* overdo it on carrots...or sweet potatoes...your skin will take on an orange hue.

 

[Ashers]

yeah if you *WAY* overdo it on carrots...or sweet potatoes...your skin will take on an orange hue.

My mom did that once. She ate a bag of baby carrots a day for I don't know how long, and her hands were noticeably orange. I forgot about that.

 

[coffeebythelake]

My mom did that once. She ate a bag of baby carrots a day for I don't know how long, and her hands were noticeably orange. I forgot about that.

Too much beta carotene / vitamin A can do that. A single regular size carrot has almost 200% the daily value.

 

[kdburton]

Make sure to ask your patients who claim to have blood in their stool if they've recently eaten beets as this can cause a false positive. 😳

Unless beet crap smells like a GI bleed too, then you should be able to differentiate the two with your nose haha

 

[Drogba]

Unless beet crap smells like a GI bleed too, then you should be able to differentiate the two with your nose haha

HAHA your just coming out and saying "beet crap" when all the posts have just been alluding to it made me laugh outlood for some reason.

Whats wrong with beets anyway, they are delicious.

 

[coffeebythelake]

Unless beet crap smells like a GI bleed too, then you should be able to differentiate the two with your nose haha

Next time a patient comes in with a suspected GI bleed I'll tell them to fish their crap out of the toilet and smell it.

 

[Drogba]

Next time a patient comes in with a suspected GI bleed I'll tell them to fish their crap out of the toilet and smell it.

What, don't they know its common courtesy to bring their feces in a baggy under these circumstances?

 

[midn]

What about stool in blood?

😱

 

[sendwich]

What about stool in blood?

😱

anal fistula?

 

[coffeebythelake]

What about stool in blood? 😱

That would be... *ahem* problematic.

anal fistula?

It would cause stool in urine (rectovesical fistula) or in the vagina (rectovaginal fistula). Maybe even stool out of the umbilicus (ala meckel's diverticulum). But the last time I checked, the ass doesn't open into the cardiovascular system. 😎

 

[TheNextMD]

Lol, my dad cut himself shaving, which bled a lot. He then ate fresh beets. After taking a leak and pooping beet color, he thought he was dying and went to the ER.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

On the same note, I've been asked to do parasite ID's on more sesame seeds than actual parasites. What's more, it's the doctors sending the sesame seeds for identification. 😱

Anybody here actually seen a wiggling proglottid?

I'm so glad I don't have your job. And people think cadavers are gross.

 

[sendwich]

That would be... *ahem* problematic.

It would cause stool in urine (rectovesical fistula) or in the vagina (rectovaginal fistula). Maybe even stool out of the umbilicus (ala meckel's diverticulum). But the last time I checked, the ass doesn't open into the cardiovascular system. 😎

sorry, in my delirium, i read "stool in pee".
lack of sleep can do miracles.

 

[MattD]

On the same note, I've been asked to do parasite ID's on more sesame seeds than actual parasites. What's more, it's the doctors sending the sesame seeds for identification. 😱

Anybody here actually seen a wiggling proglottid?

HAHAHA, I'm remembering the first time I ate a sesame seed bun after starting med school... I'm glad nobody walked in to see my puzzled expression... or, ya know, me bending over the can examining my own poop 🙂

To be fair, I used to digest the damn things fairly well, maybe there IS something wrong!!!!