Hemato-CHEESE-ia: A Case of Red Stools Caused by a Spicy Cheesy Snack

A 22-year-old male presented to the ED following an episode of acute-onset abdominal pain and passage of red stools. On a detailed review of his dietary history, the patient reported eating a whole large bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos the day prior to the episode. We describe a case of food dye mimickin...

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Autores principales: Lee, Katie F, Magee, Jared, McCarthy, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36185832
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28584
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description A 22-year-old male presented to the ED following an episode of acute-onset abdominal pain and passage of red stools. On a detailed review of his dietary history, the patient reported eating a whole large bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos the day prior to the episode. We describe a case of food dye mimicking hematochezia and explore the effects of capsaicin on the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
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spelling pubmed-95213932022-09-30 Hemato-CHEESE-ia: A Case of Red Stools Caused by a Spicy Cheesy Snack Lee, Katie F Magee, Jared McCarthy, John Cureus Internal Medicine A 22-year-old male presented to the ED following an episode of acute-onset abdominal pain and passage of red stools. On a detailed review of his dietary history, the patient reported eating a whole large bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos the day prior to the episode. We describe a case of food dye mimicking hematochezia and explore the effects of capsaicin on the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Cureus 2022-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9521393/ /pubmed/36185832 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28584 Text en Copyright © 2022, Lee et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Lee, Katie F
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McCarthy, John
Hemato-CHEESE-ia: A Case of Red Stools Caused by a Spicy Cheesy Snack
title Hemato-CHEESE-ia: A Case of Red Stools Caused by a Spicy Cheesy Snack
title_full Hemato-CHEESE-ia: A Case of Red Stools Caused by a Spicy Cheesy Snack
title_fullStr Hemato-CHEESE-ia: A Case of Red Stools Caused by a Spicy Cheesy Snack
title_full_unstemmed Hemato-CHEESE-ia: A Case of Red Stools Caused by a Spicy Cheesy Snack
title_short Hemato-CHEESE-ia: A Case of Red Stools Caused by a Spicy Cheesy Snack
title_sort hemato-cheese-ia: a case of red stools caused by a spicy cheesy snack
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36185832
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28584
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