Anonymous wrote:Some kids react to the red dyes in kids cold and allergy etc. medications and then those are confused with allergy to actual mediation.
Why do they need artificial colors especially if there are food based colorings? Also why they need any color at all?

Because most people have no idea how the world works and they think our government wouldn't allow people to eat anything that would hurt them. So they figure it's all perfectly safe and why not have your food look pretty as well.

I used to be one of those people. Not anymore.

Some kids react to the red dyes in kids cold and allergy etc. medications and then those are confused with allergy to actual mediation.
Why do they need artificial colors especially if there are food based colorings? Also why they need any color at all?

I have an allergy to red dye no.3
It makes me vomit and have diarrhea.
We found this out after I had eaten red velvet cake, Strawberry wafers, and a strawberry flavoring filled chocolate.

Anonymous wrote:Isn't this a scene from the beginning of Cujo?

PP here with the 11yo: no, it was more like the prom scene from "Carrie."

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.

Isn't this a scene from the beginning of Cujo?

I got dared to drink a bottle of food coloring. Me being me i took the dare right away. I woke up at 1 A.M. throwing up. DO NOT DRINK FOOD COLORING!!!

If I drink Hawaiian Punch or eat Red Velvet Cake I throw up within an hour or two. My stomach hurts so bad. I assume that means I have some sort of an allergy.

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who is allergic to red food coloring. It gives her nightmares that night if she has any that day.

Whoa, that's interesting. I'd heard stories about kids who have behavioral issues after eating red food coloring, so it's scary to think that something so common can affect people's minds.

Red food dye can be wicked- physical and behavioral issues are common with it.

My brother cannot eat foods with red artificial coloring. As a child he vomited and as an adult he gets hives. He had to go to the hospital once while he was on vacation for having a reaction to a newly prescribed medication: the pill was purple so it flew under his radar, but the red dye in it was what likely caused the problem.

I get sick from yellow dye. Diarrhea and sometimes nausea. I have vomited on occasion. It make sense that red could do the same.

He could have gotten sick from anything he ate at the party, or from a stomach bug. The dye would be in his vomit because it happens to be in his system. The only way to know whether the dye caused the vomiting is to test it another time.

My kid vomited orange after his birthday party and I assumed it was eating the frosting that was problematic.

He had too much of icing. Cake and icing is not his regular diet, and that's how his bode reacted.

But I would completely refrain of any food with coloring.
It's very wicked.
Natural coloring works pretty good. For red there is beet powder. Make your own cakes)))