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pink/red/purple sweat
NaSMASH 
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Every once in a while I wake up with reddish hues on my shirts... not in the standard sweat locale. Its on my back, primarily below the shoulder blades. I am stumped. No meds, no supplements, not hair dye, no lotions, shampoos, etc. I've tried to, and have eliminated most probable causes. The color does not stain, washes out easily. Cannot figure this out. No, to the wise asses, it's not Gatorade induced. It's only on the back, small of my back and lower shoulder blades. Odd. Thoughts?
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My only thought is that you have pimples on your back and sometimes one will break while you sleep.
It's not totally unheard of for blood to get mixed into perspiration glands, giving the appearance of pinkish / purple sweat, but it's pretty rare. If it's in small amounts, it could also be what Ceres & Jam already mentioned.
EDIT: Also bedbugs, potentially. Often blood spotting is the first/only thing people notice about an infestation -- and then you're smearing it around or something maybe I'm grasping at straws a bit here?
...Well, I mean, it's not impossible but bed bug infestations are incredibly rare. We've almost entirely eradicated bed bugs.
oh lord, if only that were even close to being true.
Yeah, the bedbug epidemic started up again several years ago. They're everywhere now.
What color are your sheets/pillow cases?
Oh my goodness this is so wrong. So wrong.
However, bedbugs leave obvious bites in lines of three.
Oh, that's unfortunate.
The population in Canada has remained at near-extinction levels, with the occasional infestation cropping-up in the homes of international travellers. I'd sort-of assumed the states had fared as well.
I realize this is off topic but uh no
Both Toronto and Vancouver have thriving bedbug problems
uhhh that's not true at all either. TIFF (Toronto Film Festival)had a scare Aug 2010, and all the major cities have the occasional outbreak. They're called bed bugs but they live in the "wild" too. It's just once they are inside and multiplying they are hard to get rid of.
Back on topic - IANAD but there are conditions you can bleed like is said above. The main thing I think of is House in this case but you know how truthful TV doctoring is.
Black, purple, red, pink, blue can all do that. I'd wager it's probably a shade of blue if you're getting all 3 of those colors.
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Do you have textured spiky walls you could be rubbing against? Is it a certain shirt it happens in that could be causing irritation?
but they're listening to every word I say
Do you sweat a whole bunch, or is the odd pattern more because you don't sweat that much and that happens to be where it lands?
Otherwise I'm guessing sweat carrying some sort of food dye. Do you regularly eat anything brightly colored?
I have also recently noticed pink stains on my pillow case and white t-shirts, mainly around the neck...
Actually used a wet wipe across the back of my neck and stomach and the wet wipe became pink!
All I can really think of is that there is some coloring or something in drinks or food.... I have been eating a lot more oranges recently but I cant imagine that turning my sweat pink...