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<blockquote data-quote="allhaileris" data-source="post: 215522" data-attributes="member: 5663"><p>We took the food dye out a couple years ago. Our daughter was trained before she could read that ingredients with numbers in them meant she couldn't have them. She's totally fine with it and will ask if she can have something brightly colored now (because she knows it's not all bad and if she asks she might get it). I realized it made her a mess the first time she got children's motrin, the red type, kept her up until 3am. I thought it was her cold, but the next night she was up just as late. It made for a horrible mama!</p><p> </p><p>Read up on the Feingold diet. This is one of the key areas of that diet and the ony rule I can really follow. We also keep away apple juice and milk due to a natural preservative that causes hyperactivity. My daughter is mostly a vegitarian, so I don't have to worry about chicken nuggets or lunch meat! But the cherries in tropical fruit has dye in it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p><p> </p><p>You can buy ANYTHING at Whole Foods and it'll be safe for this. I got her last birthday cake there with pretty flowers on it and no food dye. </p><p> </p><p>There *is* a group here in the US that is trying to get the FDA to ban dyes. I emailed myself the article but it's way back in my email and I'll have to dig for it. I think writing the FDA, your congresspeople and senators will do more than writing the companies (which reminds me I still need to do that). </p><p> </p><p>And for the effect is has on my daughter, she just gets non-focused and hyper. It becomes impossible to get her to latch onto me and she has to run it out of her system. She's been diagnosed with ODD, but we're leaning towards Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and are working on another evaluation.</p><p> </p><p>I know that I'm lucky being in the area I'm at, there are lots of natural type people and lots of options for food so I can usually find something without food dye. But there have been plenty of times she gets a sprite instead of "lemonade" at a restaurant because I'd rather have her only have one bad thing (the high fructose corn syrup) than two (the dye and hfcs).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="allhaileris, post: 215522, member: 5663"] We took the food dye out a couple years ago. Our daughter was trained before she could read that ingredients with numbers in them meant she couldn't have them. She's totally fine with it and will ask if she can have something brightly colored now (because she knows it's not all bad and if she asks she might get it). I realized it made her a mess the first time she got children's motrin, the red type, kept her up until 3am. I thought it was her cold, but the next night she was up just as late. It made for a horrible mama! Read up on the Feingold diet. This is one of the key areas of that diet and the ony rule I can really follow. We also keep away apple juice and milk due to a natural preservative that causes hyperactivity. My daughter is mostly a vegitarian, so I don't have to worry about chicken nuggets or lunch meat! But the cherries in tropical fruit has dye in it :( You can buy ANYTHING at Whole Foods and it'll be safe for this. I got her last birthday cake there with pretty flowers on it and no food dye. There *is* a group here in the US that is trying to get the FDA to ban dyes. I emailed myself the article but it's way back in my email and I'll have to dig for it. I think writing the FDA, your congresspeople and senators will do more than writing the companies (which reminds me I still need to do that). And for the effect is has on my daughter, she just gets non-focused and hyper. It becomes impossible to get her to latch onto me and she has to run it out of her system. She's been diagnosed with ODD, but we're leaning towards Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and are working on another evaluation. I know that I'm lucky being in the area I'm at, there are lots of natural type people and lots of options for food so I can usually find something without food dye. But there have been plenty of times she gets a sprite instead of "lemonade" at a restaurant because I'd rather have her only have one bad thing (the high fructose corn syrup) than two (the dye and hfcs). [/QUOTE]
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