It was the fucking RIBENA all along!!

[RozHuntleysLeftHand]

Deliberately not name changed so you can tell I'm not a gross poo troll!

TMI alert.

For the past few days I've had awful, weird poos and they were like a dark green colour and sticky.

After reading a few threads on here about black sticky poo and internal bleeding, I rang my mate who's a HCP in a bit of a panic (getting an appoinment round here takes like 4 weeks)

She came round, checked me over, said I seemed alright but should get properly checked anyway, at a walk in ASAP.

THEN she saw me necking a pint of Ribena, and asked how much I drunk everyday (a lot)

She advised me to give it up for a couple of days, see what happened............

Well.......As I'm sure you can guess, turns out it was the fucking Ribena!!

Moral of the story, don't neck that shit, I feel so fucking stupid now.

*My DC love the awful bright blue bubblegum flavour ice cream you get from the chain ice cream parlours.

It turns their poo bright green the next day, yet every time we forget and freak out*

this! My DC only had them once but I couldn’t believe the colour. Luminous! (I initially accused DC of eating paint or wax crayons then once we’d worked it out I called DH to see it as I couldn’t believe it)

When i was a childminder aswell as noting in book i would mention if they had beetroot for that very reason 🤣

This happened to my son last week, Raspberry Slush Puppy 🤦‍♀️

Hmm I eat a fair few and those crisps and have never had it. I must eat more!

Bright blue food colour definitely seems to be a theme here.
Also beetroot and blackcurrant!
They should come with panic warnings

That sounds nasty

Years ago, when I was having chemotherapy, one of the side-effects of the drugs was bright red urine. I had great fun experimenting with eating beetroot on infusion days, and I did manage to do a purple wee eventually. 😁

I ate four delicious bulbs. I've never seen the like. It felt too watery and red to be blood but what else could it be? I honestly thought I was dying. 😄

Oh dear my son ate three three large beetroots yesterday ,he has severe autism, he was enjoying them I have not seen the aftermath yet 💩

Red velvet cake had me running to the GP with a Tupperware box containing my child’s poo a good few years ago.

Yes, to my shame I had fished it out of the loo as panicked at the very red (assumed blood) colour when wiping. I still am not over the mortification of presenting my GP with a rather ripe stool sample as couldn’t get a same day appointment, so kept it until the next day (why oh why?!). The smell was what can only be described as incredibly potent when I presented my poor GP with it and ceremoniously lifted the lid. It was only when he asked what my ds had eaten the previous couple of days that the penny began to drop and I crept out of the surgery thinking I was going to have to move practice immediately.

I’m sure said doctor must talk about me to this day, the stench that was left in his room must have taken quite a while to dissipate!

I'm jealous

Blue food colouring gives me green poo. My grandson (11) is into making ‘mocktails’.
He spied some oranges in a bowl and asked if he could squeeze a couple to make juice. I left him to it in the kitchen while I chilled out. I could hear various cupboard doors opening, lots of clattering of utensils and mixing and stirring noises coming from the kitchen.half an hour later in he waltzes with a glass of blue liquid served on a little tray. He’d even put orange slices on the edge of the glass and a sprig of mint floating on top.
He looked the proper little wine waiter complete with a tea towel draped over one arm.
I asked what it was, “Orange juice, soda water, (Fevertree of course) pear juice and blue food colouring”… I took a sip and it was really nice, he was so chuffed with himself I had to finish the lot.
I got such a shock the following day, my poo was a lovely shade of green!

Whilst on the subject of Ribena, it also rotted my dcs' teeth and they ended up with loads of fillings, thankfully just on their milk teeth.

Their permanent teeth are fine since we stopped Ribena.

Blue raspberry flavoured things give you green poo

With ds 1 - blueberries a whole tub gave him poo with blue tinge. Also red velvet cake - he was older then and gave me a jump when he told me his poo was red then I remembered. Never heard of Ribena. But that’s what can be wonderful (abd scary) about the human body - we can all react differently.

Ever had a berroca wee? That scared the shit out of me.

Well, yes.
if you fart the wrong way on here someone will tell you it's either endometriosis or stage 5 cancer of the bowel. If you are bloated, like most women on occasion, you'd better get yourself in for several uncomfortable procedures, stat!

And god forbid you have a slight sore throat. That'll be sepsis.

A purple cabbage also has strange effects.

Reminds me of Peckham water and the glowing hand.

Add blue slush to the list.

Sorry still can't quote, but red velvet cake is a new one on me!
Seems like food colour is the culprit in a hell of a lot of this!

Jammy red roo wine = funny looking 💩

Ribera is the work of Satan I hate the stuff. I necked some once after being nil by mouth and immediately threw it all back up. I've never been able to drink it since.

What happens with grapes? I've never had any problems.

Oh, for crying out loud, am I going to have to worry about Robinson’s Apple and Blackcurrant squash now? Is nothing sacred? 😩I drink about a litre and a half on an average work day, and have never noticed anything different about substances exiting my body. It has crossed my mind before though, as to whether all my internal organs are turning purple … 😮

DS3 is obsessed with blueberries. The resulting nappies are dreadful.