Generally hemmorhoid blood is bright red, internal bleeding is black by the time it shows up.
Generally hemmorhoid blood is bright red, internal bleeding is black by the time it shows up.
Do NOT go by that.
The color of the blood depends on how long the blood has been sitting around in your G.I. tract before it comes out. The color is bright red with cancers of the rectum and sigmoid colon, but is usually thick, black, and "tarry" if the cancer is higher up in the digestive tract.
Thirty percent of all colon cancers develop in the rectum thereby potentially presenting with "bright red" blood.
So, don't be lulled into a false sense of security by "bright red" blood. That could very well be a rectal cancer.
If you bleed, see your doctor. Once you are 50, get your colonoscopy.