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Can eating a lot of carrots cause your stool to look like it has blood in it?

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Dr. Pavel Conovalciuc answered

It shoudn't: Carrots are digested and degraded and have no significant iron in them to make your stool like blood.

Answered 2/5/2018

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A member asked:

Can eating a lot of carrots cause your stool to look like it has blood in it?

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Dr. Pavel Conovalciuc answered

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Blood in stool. Had safe sex with HSV pos 1 month ago. Eating a lot of ghost pepper salsa. Dont think I have hsv, havent been tested. Cause?