saw some orang/red on TP

[Dobies#1]

Ok, I know I don't have CDiff right now but I'm a bit scared. Saturday I ate a salad and it had red bell peppers in it. Sunday when I pooped there were small bits of reddish orange stuff on the TP but when it smeared it looked more red but I didn't think much of it since I had the peppers the day before. Sunday night I had some Sirloin Burger soup which had carrots and tomato purée in it. This morning (Tuesday) I saw an orange smudge that looked like a carrot but I wiped thru it with another piece of TP and it looked reddish like on Sunday. I know you aren't doctor's but I'm hoping this is just food and not blood. Anybody else ever have anything like this??? I did have a normal colonscopy a little over a year ago and a normal CT scan two weeks ago. Sorry, CDiff turned me into a worry wort!!
Edit: I have been eating some strawberry Twizzler Candy the last few days. Maybe that's part of the red stuff?

[Lisa33]

You sound like me.... If I eat red peppers, I will see it mixed in my stool for a couple of days after. If I eat spinach, I will see it in my stool for a couple of days after. I thought the peppers were blood as well, but it goes away after a couple of days, and it looks kinda like pieces of peppers (not to be gross). I put my nerves at ease by not eating any red peppers for a couple of weeks and then ate them again. Sure enough, the red was back. Same thing happens to me with spinach. I am just not able to digest these foods. I don't have any pain when I eat them, but they seem to come out undigested. This was not the case prior to c-diff. Maybe try what I did, and stay away from red peppers and carrots for a while, and then eat them again and see if the color is back.