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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Lifestyle
Miriam Stoppard

'Blood in urine could be sign of bladder cancer - get checked if you're worried'

Problems that are toilet related are so often not discussed out of embarrassment. But it’s ­always best to get these conditions checked so you can rule things out and relax, or crack on with treatment.

A friend recently phoned me in a panic to say there was blood in her urine, which she took as an ominous sign. I asked if she’d been eating beetroot. She had, so I was able to calm her down by saying it was probably the purply-pink pigment of the beetroot passing through. And it was.

In this instance, the colour is ­distributed evenly throughout the urine and it appears pink.

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