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Beetroot Bowel Blaster

The Brown Laser? Oooh yeah. Nile Cruise 25 years ago. The last night. Big Banquet. Everyone dressed up. Mummies, the Fez you name it. The Next Day? Total Bedlam. From the bottom. The Old Cataract in Aswan never knew what hit it. Poor maids. What a mess.

Can sympathise with some people here.
 
stevec67 said:
No, not another suggestion for the keto diet, but it probably works better. Last night I had a BBQ with my parents, bit of salad, some beetroot about half the size of an apple. Great. 2 small glasses of wine so this is not the result of excess alcohol. This morning the world is falling out of my bottom, and it's purple. I've had this before and I thought it was probably an option this time, but reckoned that a small amount of the stuff wouldn't be too disastrous. Is anyone else so afflicted?
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Not quite the same thing, but a surfeit of beetroot turns my pee beetroot red, which is quite disconcerting!
 
Tony Lockhart said:
I can't remember the last time a particular food had me giving it brown laser.
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I'm similarly immune to such effects from eating stuff. I first noted this when a group of twelve of us went on a caving expedition to Yugoslavia in the 1960s. All my pals were badly affected by something they either ate or drank, and when our kind Yugoslav hosts took us to a local restaurant to treat us to a delicious meal, I was the only one who could actually eat anything, which of course I did with great relish, much to the annoyance of the rest. The final straw for them was when I farted - I'd have been lynched if any of them could have run. I was sent off to the local hospital to see if they could prescribe something for my long-suffering chums, and the Yugoslavs helpfully gave me a local word to describe the illness to the doctors. On arriving at the hospital, I pointed to my stomach and told the nurses "Driska". They ran off & dragged out a doctor who happened to speak English, and quickly informed me that "Driska"..."Was not a nice word...". Cue much hilarity from those pesky Yugoslav cavers.

SWMBO, on the other hand, seems to get ill on eating the seemingly most innocuous things. She puts this down to when she spent time in Africa, & picked up some exotic local bug.
 
Never had any problems with beetroot(natures viagra allegedly) but oh lordy if I eat more than a a few chunks of pineapple the effects are profound with at least a painful day of waiter's ring and regular applications of germolene to keep the tears at bay.
 
I love plain, boiled beetroot. It makes a good and filling compromise when a green salad etc., just isn't enough.. but you want to avoid bread and potatoes. I've even been known to grow my own. I also love the pre-cooked variety in plastic packaging. Tesco do a rather nice line in small beets cooked in spicy vinegar. Not cheap.. but very yum!

P.S. A very old Marguerite Patten cookbook we have, suggests serving boiled beetroot with Parsley Sauce. I suspect that might be a double laser provocation for some. :)

P.P.S. Lots of good info about Beetroot nutrition etc., here: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/beetroot

It seems that the laser effect is related to 'FODMAPS', which some people cannot tolerate, resulting in 'unpleasant' digestive symptoms.
 
cooky1257 said:
Never had any problems with beetroot(natures viagra allegedly) but oh lordy if I eat more than a a few chunks of pineapple the effects are profound with at least a painful day of waiter's ring and regular applications of germolene to keep the tears at bay.
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Might I suggest that you lie to your Doc and tell them that you have been having a few issues with hemorrhoids. They may then prescribe something like Proctosedyl, or Ultraproct, as either suppositories, or cream. Miraculous stuff which contains both an effective painkiller such as Cinchocaine and a steroid to reduce inflammation.... or so I'm told....:rolleyes:
 
Mullardman said:
Might I suggest that you lie to your Doc and tell them that you have been having a few issues with hemorrhoids. They may then prescribe something like Proctosedyl, or Ultraproct, as either suppositories, or cream. Miraculous stuff which contains both an effective painkiller such as Cinchocaine and a steroid to reduce inflammation.... or so I'm told....:rolleyes:
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Or I could lay of the pineapple chunks and stick to Kola Kubes..;-)
 
Fruit peel or apricots, peaches and nectarines do me in, I'll have a really itchy mouth and throat for an hour or so and then brown laser time. Mushrroms to a lesser extent but I love the taste so just put up with the problems.

Love beetroot and it has no affects, the sweetfire stuff from waitrose is really nice

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I didn't know about beetroot's laxative effect, and I absolutely hate the stuff anyway, but last night I had a couple of slithers. Talk about constitutional crisis this morning, blinkin' 'eck! It was very close to the effect of that 'bowel conditioner' that you have to take before a colonic investigation.

Then again, it could have been the very rare loin of venison that it was accompanying. Game does tend to speed things up a bit, for me, but I've never experienced anything like that from just eating food.

Fasting day today.
 
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