red ink seeping from your toilet paper, says colorectal surgeon
Guy Nash—but he's still upset about it.
That's because people who use toilet paper decorated in red
may think they're seeing bl00d in the toilet when there isn't
any, and vice versa. At stake is a possible colon-cancer
diagnosis. "Those patients bleeding will miss real bl00d, and
those not bleeding will report 'blood' in the toilet
mistakenly," Nash tells LiveScience.
"In my view, it is irresponsible of the makers to have not
considered this," he said. But not all medical experts are on
board: "I think it's nonsense," said a New York
gastroenterologist who has never seen red blood confused
with red-colored toilet paper. In any case, says Nash, "If
someone sees blood, they should call their doctor, not panic,
and have it appropriately evaluated."
Even then, rectal bleeding is fairly common and is usually
caused by a small an*l tear or a swollen blood vessel—not
colon cancer, notes WebMD
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