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[quote=Anonymous]Yes! My now-11yo had several bouts of this before we figured it out: the only times she vomited over the course of about three years were when she ate red velvet cake or had red cookie frosting.

Terrible stomach ache, one giant, horrifically red spew, and she was fine. No trouble with sugar, white flour, or other goodies, and it didn't take all that much of the super-red stuff to make her sick. Maybe half a slice of cake, or one heavily-frosted cookie.

It's only when it's in large amounts or something intensely red, so things like red Skittles seem to be fine. We didn't have much success figuring out which red dye was the culprit, so we just had her avoid anything that was super-bright red, or large amounts of smaller red things. After a couple of incidents of spectacularly red vomiting, she didn't really want to eat anything that color, anyway!

FWIW, she seems to possibly be outgrowing it a bit now. She had some red punch at camp over the summer and had no problems.

We did put it down as an allergy on her forms for school and camps, to be sure they'd offer her an alternative to red punch or popsicles or whatever. I don't know if it would be considered a true allergy, so I'd just say she was "sensitive to large amounts," or note that it caused nausea and vomiting. [/quote]

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