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.

The nursery called me in a big of a panic once about his weird black poo. I had to explain that he’d managed to eat a lot of blueberries the day before.

If Ribena does that to you you had better avoid Asparagus!!!!

My mother once turned yellow from reading too many raw carrots (weird healthy eating thing) the doctor ordered liver function tests and my mum was worried he thought she was a secret alcoholic until the penny eventually dropped.

Black food colouring.

From cake iceing

Spent ages googling green poo before realising...

😂😂😂

My parents turned orange from regularly drinking sherry. I only eat beetroot at Xmas and was quite surprised to have pink wee.

Don't have a Berrocca wee after having eaten asparagus! You will really think you've had a plutonium event.

It would be quite the atomic pee.

Wasn't it Sunny Delight that got banned for turning people orange?

I once had a terrible night in a hotel (prior to a work event) with abdominal pain and unusually dark grey/green diarrhoea.

Limped through my work event feeling faint and feverish, wondering if I had some kind of weird disease. Didn't remember until later that in the boring drive the day before, I'd absent mindedly consumed an entire (large) bag of liquorice toffees.

I had cravings for crunchy raw carrots with my 3rd pregnancy. At about 36 weeks my midwife panicked at my routine appointment because I looked jaundiced... they were about to pack me off to hospital when DH said 'I know it sounds daft but it couldn't be all the carrots she's eating could it?
'How many carrots?'
'Oh a whole bagfull...'

I looked like I'd overdosed with the fake tan!!! So yes too many carrots (and we are talking many kilos over 9 months) really DO turn you a yellowy orange!

For DD's 2nd birthday almost 21 years ago she had a shop bought Tweenies cake. DD insisted on eating Bella, the bossy blue girl for those too young to remember. The next day, DH was changing her nappy and yelled me to come up because of her blue green poo. He did work it out quite quickly.

My late mother once made borscht, traditional beetroot soup. I really hate beetroot so only had a couple of mouthfulls. The parents glugged the lot. The next day they were both embarrassed and worried about the red wee. Because I didn't have much, I was fine.

My friend once made her kids a "blue velvet" cake for their b'day. All the party guests did bright blue poos that evening 🤣

I get red poo if I eat red velvet cake, scared me to death first time it happened.

First time we went out and left baby ds in the care of the inlaws was the day that he had decided to swipe soft, picked beetroot from my salad and gorged on it.

We had been in the pub for an hour when we got a phone call from panic stricken FIL, shouting that we needed to meet them at A&E, they were getting in the car to go as ds was passing bloody stools.

It took a long while to calm them down, it was quite a shock to see by all accounts.

On a similar note, does anyone know if Seaspray cranberry juice has always been sweetened with Stevia? I used to drink it all the time fine (so never checked the ingredients) and now it's got a horrible sweetener aftertaste and I was unwell after drinking it. It's the original one not a no added sugar version.

I take a daily medication for a chronic condition that is passed in my urine and goes a startling shade of deep red if it comes into contact with bleach. Every time I clean the loo and then go for a wee it frightens the life out of me for a few seconds until I remember!

I'm a 1:1 SEN support worker, a few year ago I was looking after a non-verbal little girl. I was cleaning her after she had been to the toilet and noticed there was quite a lot of 'blood' in her poo. We phoned her mum in a bit of a panic telling her that she needed to come right away and take her to a&e. After she had stopped laughing mum explained that the girl had eaten a fair amount of beetroot the night before 🙈

Half a (large) pack of beetroot crisps has the same effect as a lot of fresh/pickled beetroot in the wee (and mild panic) department.