Sorry beetroot stool question and timing

[cheeseandjam]

I ate beetroot last night about 9:00 pm. Went for bm at 7:00 this morning and stool was very red. I am trying to tell myself it's the beetroot. But is this too fast? Appologise if you are eating your breakfast.

[pinkfrocks]

It''s the beetroot.
DH says he gets red wee as well .

[MaxsMummy2012]

It's definitely the beetroot - i remember my mum telling me when it happened to her only she was convinced she was dying and went inti s minor panic she wasn't and all returned to normal.

[MegaClutterSlut]

I had this last week. I had a salad for dinner and when I went to the loo in the morning it was bright red. I too thought I was dying until I wiped and there was a chunk of beetroot

[MrsZiegler]

one Christmas dh ate three (of the big bags) of dried beetroot crisps over the course of the day. Then spent the evening in the loo & when he finally emerged, ashen faced, he was convinced he was bleeding to death. That was fun [he wasn't and the beetroot had worked its way through by lunchtime the next day!].

[trinity0097]

Perfectly normal for some. I once had it come through within 30min, but then I was suffering from some kind of foreign digestive bug at the time!

[upupupandaway]

Turns you pee red too.
Blue slush puppies are the best though, deep turquoise.

[tenderbuttons]

Exactly the same here today. I now eat beetroot often enough not to think that I am dying, but it has taken some years of practice not to panic.

[cheeseandjam]

Thanks for all being so reasuring ! Always rely on mumsnet.

[ShakeYourTailFeathers]

whenever I dish up beetroot DH says 'pink poo tomorrow'

[Optimist1]

I'm familiar with the beetroot effect, but nothing prepared me for the horror of looking in the loo the day after I had a smallish dish of liquorice (black) icecream. You have been warned!

[IamMummyhearmeROAR]

Yup, purple poo we call it here! And it's always next morning for me. Messy.
I was utterly traumatised after eating a pile of home grown string beans to find them dangling out my bum post poo. I had to tug them out.