Dr. Trisha Pasricha

Yes.

Yeah.

If you have this color and you've had beets, you're good.

You don't need to necessarily panic unless you're feeling dizzy or lightheaded.

If you haven't had beets and you see this color, it's kind of a maroon color.

You should absolutely talk to your doctor because this is bleeding until we prove otherwise.

Oh, whoa.

So blood can show up in our poop in any number of forms.

It can be a nice bright red.

It can be black.

It can be this maroon color.

When it's maroon, it tends to mean that the bleeding may have come from a little bit higher up in our colon.

The bright red is a little bit lower down, but this is still an emergency.

So any amount?

I mean, if it's something that you're used to seeing, you and your doctor have already decided this is hemorrhoids, you've gotten through it, it comes back, it feels the same.

All right, just let them know non-urgently.

But any amount, I would talk to them, especially if you have other symptoms like feeling dizzy, feeling lightheaded.

It does look like the kind of stuff that my dog used to eat.

You know, just like the zombie walkers, you should run and not walk.

This is actually an emergency.