Pink poo 5 year old

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My 5 year old had a half formed/half soft poo yesterday. It came out 3/4 normal brown colour but the tail end of it was a pink/orange.

I have spoke to GP who has given me a pot to get a sample but didn’t seem overly worried.

He isn’t in pain, no belly pain, no weight loss, not off his food. He did eat a lot of strawberries, and red pasta sauce, and strawberry ice cream during the day, although the strawberry ice cream was only around 15 min before the funny poo.

He had a normal poo about two hours prior to this strange poo.

Any experience with this? I have OCD and so this is causing me severe anxiety as I’m convinced it’s probably bowel cancer

Could he have eaten play doh? My son has done this and had rainbow poo! Not harmful as a one off.

No I don’t think so. The pink was a very pale pink, almost orange to be honest. I don’t know if it was food colouring, or blood (which is obviously my concern)

Everything online points to bright red blood but this wasn’t bright at all, it was more on the surface I think.

I could have been something he ate- my DD once did a bright green poo because she'd eaten a blue, bubblegum flavoured ice-cream.

Did he have any of those goodies organix oat bars? My dd always says they make her poo orange. (I haven't noticed but she finds it hysterical). I'm sure it will be something he's consumed. Beetroot or anything containing it is another possibility.

I would say it’s most likely the strawberries and the pasta sauce. Dd used to have interesting coloured poo when she was small blueberries and cherries having the most marked effect on colour when eaten in large amounts.
Ds popped a rainbow one day after nibbling on some early learning centre chubby crayons

Most likely food. Digested blood is black and fresh blood would be bright red

My oldest DC regularly eats loads of tomatoey pasta sauce, and his poo is always within the normal poo colour range. Sometimes slightly orangey but still predominantly brown.

The only time he’s had a dramatically unusual coloured poo was the day after he’d eaten a load of red poster paint at nursery.

If he has eaten anything with coloured dye in it, paint, sucking on a pen, food colourings etc, then that could account for it.
If there is anything else going on then it should be picked up when the stool sample is analysed, but I’d try not to worry too much if it’s a one off funny coloured poo.

My ds once drank a quater bottle of undillited squash not realising ot needed water (autistic' about 3 at the time, trying to be grown up getting his own drink) his wee was red for a day and his poo was brown/orange for a day or two. Sounds like the food he had eaten .

Thank you. The colour wasn’t a definite pink, it was like orangey/pinky.

I will do the stool sample and hopefully today his poo will be back to normal. His diet was slightly different yesterday as it had much more dairy and sugar than he normally has as well as the red fruits and sorbet.

Not sure if he ate anything with dyes in as he was at school most of the day!