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Saw some red pieces in stool, food or blood?

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Dr. Pamela Pappas answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Hard to know: Without knowing what you've been eating, it's impossible to say. The easiest way to tell if you have blood in your stool is to do a stool test for occult blood. You can get hemoccult stool cards from your doctor and test this. If positive, there can be multiple causes for blood in stool -- and these need to be followed up.

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Answered 10/11/2018

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If tiny black specks throughout stool is blood would it turn red in water. Was able to get some of the specks on a piece of tissue and pressed on them with another wet tissue and they stayed black. Does it sound more likely to be from food?

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Would blood in stool present as solid, light red, very small pieces that you can pick out? Or would you think food?

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