Dr. Trisha Pasricha

Those can give you a purple poop.

They can give you like a bluish tinge poop even sometimes.

And actually, they're there in like red wine too.

If this is like a pattern though, we do want to make sure we're not confusing the color for something that's a little bit more maroon-like, which makes us a little more worried for blood.

Yeah.

But if you're like, I just ate two cups of blueberries in my smoothies yesterday.

I'm seeing this one purple poop.

I'm okay with that.

Yeah, if it comes out of nowhere, and again, it's also, think about it as part of the pattern.

If you're having lightheadedness, if you have any pain, any other warning sign with a new colored poop, that should prompt you to say, let me just run this by.

It's two things.

It's either something in what you ate, like these anthocyanins, something in the food, or we want to make sure it's not blood.

Yeah.

Like a fiesta.

It's a fiesta, although it's not a fiesta because if you see this, you should go to the emergency room.

This is bright red blood, usually.

Okay.

And it usually means that it's coming from, like, close to the exit hatch.

Like, so you're bleeding from the last part of your colon, maybe from hemorrhoids.

It can also be due to something called diverticular bleeding, which are these small outpouchings in the colon that can bleed.