Red Dye Allergy

[sneezydiva]

Wow, thanks for an informative and interesting post. You might want to post this info on the ADHD board. The list of your daughters symptoms sound a lot like ADHD. I wonder how many poor children diagnosed with ADHD really have a food or dye allergy?

[ZRulz]

Fantastic post! Awesome detective work!! Keep going. You are better informed than many physicians. I have started researching GLUTEN-FREE foods and diets for autistic children. People simply have no clue what the foods they eat or handle actually do to their bodies.

My wife is allergic to cedar. Last Friday afternoon she cleaned a Hamster cage in a classroom that she is substituting in while the teacher is on maternity leave. By that evening, she was in terrible shape and today she cannot fuunction - she may have a severe sinus infection. I'll have to get her to see the doc A.S.A.P.

[Murphy]

Regarding Red Dye: Synthetic red iron is not same as red 40. It is Iron-Oxide
& is used mostly in pharmacy rx's. However, don't assume all Rx's are that. I
think it's terrible that FDA hasn't jumped in & slapped their hands & said ALL
that contain red should be I.D.'ed. I took Ambien 5mg for sleep & didn't! Yes
it was pale pink & I thought it was Iron Oxide. Even my name in their system
is flagged not to fill before pink, red, etc. is ck'd. It was red 40. I was told it was my fault that I didn't look at color before taking hm. I argued & Dr. called
in 10mg `white' to be cut. Another is Premarin .625, all red-gel capsules,
an anti-fungal `Diflucan' & some BP meds. FDA said that info is to be on bottle from (company) but upon request, U must be given a hand out that
describes med & colorant. If not avail., then it's still up to us to ask someone
their to research color on the system link they have. If they R busy & U see
it's salmon-color perhaps, they can't stop everything to ck. so U leave rx &
ck. next day. If Rx is called in, always save the time & ask `what color is it'?
Safe colors are: Iron Oxide, Carmeen & Annatto. This has been a problem for
years. I've found info on `suspect of red dye' reaction from hand outs dating
back 25 years. Co's don't care. I called the co. that made my new BP med &
told them that hand out didn't comply w/ FDA & pharmacy didn't have a submission to link. 1 hr. long distance & 5 days later, they called saying it was Carmeen. They lied, it was Oxide & yellow. If rx leaves the bldg, it's now
yours. They can't take back due to a tampering law. FDA has a site so jump
in & go complain. People have died from this. We should be able to rely on
our pharmacies.

[klynnsmom23]

For anyone else who is dealing with the red dye allergy problem I have found another brand of meds that are safe.. All the Little Tummies brand of cold meds are Dye Free!... At least we have a few options!

[allboyznogirlz]

hello I'm new here and I was just looking up on the internet about red dye and it's effects to children and I found this mess. board, and I'm glad I did I thought the doctors was crazy when they told me that my son was having a reaction to red dye, Isaid WHAT how can you have an reaction to red dye and they broke it down to me, but not like you guys did in this post, thank you now I know and understand and I see that my son it's the only one who has this allergy. My son is two years old and we've been having this problem since he was born but it wasn't the red dye whaen he was born it was the milk when I stop breast feeding him at the age of 6 mos. I started him on similac w/ iron and the first week he he had it his diaper looked like a menstal period it was full of blood I lost my mind when we got to the hospital they did all kinds of test and they found out that the base that the similac is made out of my son is alegic to it and it caused a bad infection inside of his intestance. He had to have segery and they had to reconstruct his small intestance. All of this is when he was 6 mos. old now that he is two he kept getting a bad cold and he couldn't hold nothing down on his stomach he threw up for like a week straight I took him to the doctor and they told me that it was just a stomach virus and it should be gone in a few days well let's try 6 weeks and he's still sick, at home before we went back to the hospital he was drinking pediasure strawberry and pedia lyte orange and grape and he was just not getting better so we back to the hospital and my baby was totally out of it he was like a veggi. he would not move or talk or play my baby was so sick and after two long weeks ain the hospital they finnally told me that my baby is shaving reactions to red dye. This just happened, yesterday was our first day home from the hospital and my baby is doing so good he's playing and he's back to eating and drinking BUT NOT RED DYE and he's also back to getting on my nerves which I miss. and I'm glad I found this web site and mess. board it really helps and some of you guys give more info than the doctors! Thank you