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A 35-year-old female asked:
Can sodas cause bright red bloody stool? drink anywhere from 1 to 3 sodas daily. have internal hemmoroids, so can soda be the reason for daily bleedin
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Dr. M. Hytham Beckanswered
Surgery 45 years experience
WATCH YOUR BM: Not directly either the soda causing constipation and aggravating the hemorrhoids or the anal fissure that you might have
or it could aggravating an ulcer that you might have specially if it had high caffeine content
either way stop the soda monitor your bowels use a sitz bath.
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