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To make a really long story short, we have good reason to believe that Gaetano is allergic to artificial colors in food. For the last month or so now, we've done our best to avoid giving him anything artificially colored and let me tell you it hasn't been easy.
Since he's been off the artificial colors, he's no longer congested all the time. His behavior has improved in school, he's learning more, eating better with increased appetite, and he's grown at least an inch. Sure, some of that may be coincidental, but not all of it...
As soon as I find a moment to exhale, I'll schedule him to see an allergist to confirm my suspicions. I'm more confident than ever though that they'll be able to confirm my suspicions. In fact, if it turns out that he doesn't have an allergy to artificial food coloring, I'll be pretty shocked.
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Comment from marylyn on 5/31/2007
My child is allergic to artificial food coloring but they allergic reactions was no usual: pain in lower abdomen and sometimes in the kidney aera. Once, there was blood in his urine. It was hard to discover because the allergy onset was 12 to 36 hours after he ingested the food. He is also allergic to tomato sauce and chocolate. Peanuts and eggs only give him rash. I was told by another coloring allergic patient that there were treatment shots to help him resist accidental ingestion. I will take him soon.
Comment from kranberry on 10/18/2005
We avoid Red 40 food coloring like the plague for our kids. It can turn a normal kid into a screaming, out of control problem child in no time at all.
As you probably have found out (I only now noticed this posting) it is next to impossible to test for this type of allergy. Other things we try to avoid are MSG (which has at least six different names) and sulfites.
And you are right - it is very hard to buy food when people have food allergies. You spend most of your time at the grocery store reading the labels.
I did notice a change in my son's behavior, but I think with him it was due to him feeling healthier. I certainly couldn't blame him for being grouchy when he was sick all the time with a cough and/or an ear infection.
You're right; there is no official allergy test to test for food color. I had him tested for environmental allergies and he had none. (Hooray!) So I can rule out all of that as the cause and know that by process of elimination its definitely the food allergies. (I'll be testing him for a few food allergies soon just to make sure those aren't a problem too.) His allergist concurs that he's got the allergy to food color based on his symptoms and lack there of when not exposed to them. (I do wish there was an official test though!)
For the most part I try to avoid MSG, but I'm not religious about it... I always avoid artificial sugars because it makes my stomach upset. Speaking of, aspartame is in just about every mint or bubble gum now, but I'll stop ranting before I get too much further.
Grocery store shopping has gotten better than it was because now we know the brands we can trust and just buy a lot of those same ones. Its when we want to try something new that it takes so long. If a brand isn't "all natural" then we have to do a quick glance to be sure they haven't changed their ingredients though, so that slows things a little bit.
Thanks for writing in and if you have any favorite color-free foods to share with us, please do! I'm always keeping an eye out for new things that are safe for us to eat. ~Angela