Comments on: Seeing Red: One Mother (A Medical Writer) Investigates Food Dyes

By: Strider

Strider — Mon, 27 May 2013 02:59:39 +0000

I and my wife have mild reactions to these dyes. My son gets hives. There is no reason these dyes should be in our food supply and in our pharmaceuticals. Everyone on this site shoud be writing to their state representative, congress person, and senator to educate them of this problem.

By: Bobert

Bobert — Fri, 03 May 2013 23:03:09 +0000

I am allergic to red dye40 but for me all it does is make me go insanely hyper and uncontrollably run around until I run into a door knob and get knocked out or if someone sits on me

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By: Best Buddy/Grandma N

Best Buddy/Grandma N — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:43:05 +0000

Try this, not foolproof but works on my granddaughter. Just dab a little of the food on the cheek, and depending on her sensitivity you’ll get a red spot. I’ve been doing this with Sophia since she was an infant and it helps when in doubt. Saved us in restaurants. We carry most of her own food now. Probably won’t be going out to eat much anymore. Spent the night in emergency from a “natural fruit popsicle”.
Red dye 40 Blue dye 1. First time reacting so violently. She had one earlier in the day and was fine. DON’T TRUST ANYTHING READ THE FULL LABEL FIRST.
I’m still very shaken by this. She lights my life.

By: Sara Akin

Sara Akin — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:02:10 +0000

Wow, this describes my 2 year old’s situation perfectly! We discovered a few months ago that he had sensitivities to Nitrates and Red 40 (sleep problems, terrible tantrums and aggressive behavior) so we cut them out of his diet and immediately began seeing results! And this was all a collaborative effort between my mom and mother-in-law and I -our doctor acted positively incredulous when we told him what great results we had after cutting these things out of his diet. Only fast-forward to the present, my son has a terrible cold and ear infection so I unwittingly gave him the pink amoxicillon we were prescribed. Three crazy sleepless nights later it finally dawned on me – that medicine is PINK! It took several calls to the doctor, urgent care where we’d been treated and the pharmacy before it was confirmed -yes, it was Red 40 in there! I can’t believe how ridiculous this all is – and how non-committal and unconcerned the medical staff are when I bring up my concerns!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:23:03 +0000

My husband was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and now we have 3 boys of our own. Our oldest is 5 and started kindergarten this year. By the way he acts I feel that he too has ADHD. However, before he started school his doc wouldn’t look into it without that second opinion from a teacher (since kids will act entirely different for their parents than others). At first his teais her wasn’t too concerned. Yes, he is extremely hyper but it’s not interfering with his school work and learning. Last year around this time he developed an ear infection. His dad was gone training for the Army at this time. He was put on amoxicillan for the ear infection and his attitude changed. Not only was he hyper but he seemed to become a bit ‘bipolar’ and was very defiant.
i chalked it up as him missing his dad and not completely understanding why he was gone. His dad is gone again for more training and he got put on the amoxicillan again for impetigo. He’s been on it since Saturday and all week at school he has been misbehaving. Yesterday his teacher said that he was “completely out of control”. Today he was worse. I don’t know if it’s the red dye or the fact that his dad is gone, or perhaps both? Should I speak to his doc to change the medication for the remainder of his 10 antibiotic?

By: Sally Hawkins

Sally Hawkins — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:03:00 +0000

I am a mother of two with nine year old who has some pretty sever food allergies…she was diagnosed with a shellfish allergy when she was five and then a year later she developed a red dye allergy. One thing we were not aware of is that in some meat processing red dye is used to make pepperoni, salami, corned beef, pastrami…cured meat basically. She ended up in the ER because we were not aware.
These last few years have been very trying for my daughter…she just wants to be like everyone else and eat and drink like everyone else and have all the treats that they have. She understands that the products out there are potentially dangerous to her…but she just want to be like everyone else. It doesn’t help that she seems to be developing new allergies to go along with these current ones.

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By: kelly

kelly — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:00:57 +0000

red dye 40 messes with my stomach like crazy if i eat lots of pasta sauce or pepperoni like a double pepperoni pizza or like last night i ate bacon bit not knowing they had the dye i have gas that light then the next morning and most of the day stomach cramps and diarrhea that is pink if i don’t have diarrhea and depending how mush dye i had it can pink or red i did not know this until last year when i had red velvet cake that is loaded with the dye i try not to eat the dye if i drink grape soda the dye in it has about the same effect

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:36:53 +0000

Thank you Robyn for raising awareness of this issue. So many other food allergy sites won’t include chemical reactions as allergies. As you read above though, you’ll see that one child even has an epi-pen for this. We came close to going to the ER last summer after a “bomb pop” (red).
Let me tell you about the reaction. My DS had two friends over and my daughter brought them all to the ice cream man. She wasn’t watching as her brother ordered the offending treat. Within 10 minutes, he no longer wanted to be at our pool and was acting strange. This was when I found out about the red treat. We went home and I sent all the boys out to play. Within 10 more minutes, my DS was outside screaming at everybody uncontrollably to the extent that everybody had to go home and my DS was sent up to his room. When I called him down for dinner, his lips were swollen and he was scratching. I lifted his shirt and hives covered his entire trunk. In the next few days, he had scratches and scabs from scratching, dried up hives and still had swollen lips. People were asking what happened to him…..and of course my doctors didn’t believe me:(