What causes blood (or bright red blood) in your feces?
Having seen the blood in your feces can cause an alarming experience. Should you be concerned about bright red, dark red, sticky, black and/or foul smelling blood in your feces? And what are the causes of bright red blood or blood in your feces?
This is a continual piece of my feces article series: Are your feces healthy?, Are your feces healthy?2, Your child’s feces: healthy or unhealthy, Effective home remedies for treating hard feces/stool problems, constipation and irritable bowel movement, Is your feces/stool normal?, what your feces tell about your health, what your feces tell about your health (part2) and How does a bowel movement affect your feces/stool and health?.
Your first reaction when seeing bright red blood in your feces may be panic or shock. This is normal since we are just humans, and you would have a similar experience when you see a doctor inject your arm with a big long needle.
Having blood in one’s feces is also a medical condition referred to as rectal bleeding or hematochezia, wherein bright red blood becomes mixed with dried blood clots or/and feces while passing through the anus. Even though rectal bleeding generally refers to blood coming from the rectum which lies up of the anus, the blood could also be originated from the other locations of the gastrointestinal system including small intestine, large intestine, stomach and esophagus.
The color of the feces is normally determined by the location to which the bleeding occurs within the intestinal tract and digestive system or gastrointestinal tract, and this also includes the part of colon, anus or rectum. When the bleeding occurs near to the anus, the blood appears to be bright red due its shorter transit time and this is always a case when blood coming out from the sigmoid colon (large intestine that is closer to the rectum), rectum or the anus. In contrary, maroon color or deep red blood comes out from the transverse colon.
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deep blue | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Excellent article as always, Chan. Thumbs up.
ronthoughts | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Brilliant article and articles for a series on the issue on bowel movements, same as the bone health series, thank you Chan for lots of the health articles you share, your writing style are exceptional, best wishes always!
SowmyaT | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Thanks for sharing.
Thiliban | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
great info .. .
lonelyplanet | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Nice health post.
Christine Ramsay | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Wow, Chan! You have put me off my breakfast, lol. Seriously though it is important to keep a check on these things. A very well researched and informative post.
Christine
Jenny Heart | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
This is a most valuable article. These picture even though gross will help many sufferers in this area! Excellent information!
clay hurtubise | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
OK, so I’m sitting down to eat breakfast…
Good, thorough piece.
Thanks,
Clay
webseowriters | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
A cool share indeed
CanIgetMyPrivacyBackPlease | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
I though that this only happen to very light skin.
Sourav | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
An excellent share!
Mr Ghaz | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
That was cool..wonderful work!,,well presented and highly informative as well..Thanks Chan
UncleSammy | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Thanks for sharing, see you around. Cheers
Melody SJAL | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Highly informative.
Phoenix Montoya | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
This is very informative and the illustrations are some great choices- a good warning for people to take care of more of their health, thanks kabayan.
valli | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Thanks for your valuable research and information.
PR Mace | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Excellent. If more people would read this and take it to heart I might see less people in my hospital with GI bleeding receiving blood tranfusions.
Yovita Siswati | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
exellent work. Thanks for this complete explanation.
Eunice Tan | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
This article can answer our question about our health. Well done.
Judy Sheldon | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Glad I already ate, Chan.
The pictures are quite graphic, but helpful. It is important information everyone should read.
Judy Sheldon | Jan 11, 2011 | Reply
Chan, this is very good information that everyone should be aware of. Thanks for this well researched article.
papaleng | Jan 12, 2011 | Reply
My friend, you’ve overdone yourself in putting this highly informative article. Well-researched as always and very educational.. I’ve learned lots of new facts just by reading your post.
guraynsj | Jan 12, 2011 | Reply
Very informative and useful stuff.
UncleSammy | Jan 12, 2011 | Reply
Lovely- Nice share, thanks see you around
DrLopez | Jan 14, 2011 | Reply
Very informative article Chan! Thanks for sharing it with us!
CA Johnson | Jan 15, 2011 | Reply
This is very good. Luckily I haven’t see red in my feces. Thanks for letting us know about this subject. It is very important to be informed about it.
Kate Smedley | Jan 17, 2011 | Reply
Outstanding and informative article again Chan, we need to know about things like this.
Ruby Hawk | Jan 19, 2011 | Reply
Chan, thanks for the information, you really gave us a good handle on the situation.
Goodselfme | Feb 1, 2011 | Reply
Great information and presented very well.Thank you.
1hopefulman | Feb 14, 2011 | Reply
Not a pleasant article to read but it’s good to be forewarned.