If so, how do you tell what has red dye in it? Do I just look at things that are colored red, like cereal, jello, sweets? Or is it also in things like hot dogs, ice cream, canned fruit?
What about MSG's? Someone told me that taking MSG's out of the diet can help. Someone also told me that Vitamin B helps to calm them.
bumpI'm sorry but what is the red dye theory?A recent study published in the June issue of Archives of Disease in Childhood concluded, "There is a general adverse effect of artificial food colouring and benzoate preservatives on the behaviour of 3 year old children which is detectable by parents but not by a simple clinic assessment. Subgroups are not made more vulnerable to this effect by their prior levels of hyperactivity or by atopy."
Read the abstract at the following link:
http://www.smallurls.com/dl5rx
As far as individual foods go, look at the ingredients. It doesn't have to be red to contain red dye. See a pretty good list containing Red Dye # 40 at:
http://www.red40.org/pages/foods/index.html
adhd_dad38339.5609259259This has been very interesting. I never thought about how many things contain red dye. I would often give my son fruit snacks, thinking they are so much better than candy... and I would never think that jello could be a problem. Very interesting.If the food has red dye in it, it would be labeled on the list of ingred.[QUOTE=BL Moretti]Anyone know of a childrens pain/fever medication with out red dye 40? [/QUOTE]
I've been looking for a long time as well. I usually have to sacrifice in order to reduce a fever. I only buy Tylenol for my son and that too has a few ingredients that can pose to be a problem for him.
You might check into yellow dye as well -- it's also often a culprit and both are found in the most surprising things. For instance, yellow dye is in canned or frozen biscuits to make them look more "buttery."
BL -- I believe Motrin makes a dye free children's formula.http://www.motrin.com/page.jhtml?id=motrin/products/ children/dyefree.inc
MegMaguire38972.3420717593Their is dye- free kids meds it will be clear. Our issue is we need diet ones which have no corn syrup. Tylenol makes one. To avoid this breads you need to make yourself or go GFCF.The yeast free take only 25-30minutes to bake in the oven. Koolaid also does the dye-free now. We use splenda in this.
Kosherhotdogs are all beef and no colors. Kids love these also.HebrewNational.
All I can say is watching labels carefully has helped enourmously in my home. I try to stick to natural foods as much as possible.
But you'd be amazed how many foods have dyes and high fructose corn syrup (which I heard is another culprit) since reading labels I was stunned to find what foods had this stuff including Peanut butter, and frozen pancakes (boxed make it yourself pancakes has none)
[I've been looking for a long time as well. I usually have to sacrifice in order to reduce a fever. I only buy Tylenol for my son and that too has a few ingredients that can pose to be a problem for him.
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I'm going to have to try going to the local health food store and see if they have anything like that I never thought of looking for Motrin or Tylenol without the dyes and sweeteners.
My son can take pills but at only 52 lbs one tylenol is too much I think. MSG is the worst for my son.At Wal-Mart they have an organic section, at ours they do anyway, it's more expensive though.
About the fever reducer. Go to http://www.1-800homeopathy.com/ And find the fever section. You can buy a bottle of 500 dissolvable tabs for like .00, lasts forever! You give 2 tabs (they taste good and dissovle almost instantly) every 15 minutes for an hour......it really works! Sometimes the fever does not go completely away, but the child feels better. Fevers are good if they are not too high, like over 103. Fevers are there to kill the bad germs, you take the fever away, and they stay sick longer. Low grade fever I never treat, or I just give homeopathic remedy. My son has not been seriously ill in 2 years since I started this, before that, he was sick ALL THE TIME.
Anyway......it is safe and has not dyes.
Yes, fever is good.....too many people panic, if it's under 102-103 for a toddler, try and make them comfy, and homeopathic treatment will do that. One thing about homeopathic, you can give along with ANYTHING else with no adverse effects.
I treat his colds with a combination remedy from the homeopathic place I mentioned. And at 1st sihn of cold, I use Clear, it's Xylitol nasel spray, natural. I also use coloidal silver water nasel spray. It is a natural antibiotic that builds no resistance....both kills all the bad germs in the nose. I also give extra Zinc, Airborne.....usually for 3 or 4 days we feel poopy, then BAM, it's gone! I could talk forever about natural ways to cure....I need to go to the alternative threads!
Wow thanks for the info. My Dr has always said you treat a fever for comfort not because you do not want it. If the child is miserable or like you said the fever is dangerously high you treat it if not let it run it's course, I likd the homeopathic idea! What is good for cold and coughs. Tylenol cold/cough/flu has red dyes that effect my child so i cant give her this and send her to school. i really wish i could find something dye free. Anyone know of a childrens pain/fever medication with out red dye 40? we used to check all e nos that were in food but watching them didnt seem to make a lot of diferance especially when the school would reward my daughter with sweets with major e nos in , the worse e no is tartizan found in lots of food but to my amasement i found it in procesed tin of peas now why do you need the colour yellow in peasGo to the homeopathic site I listed, they have many things for colds and coughs. I also listed things I use to ward off a cold right when they start getting it in this thread somewhere.I've seen my son eat Cheetos and 10 minutes later break down into tears and become weepy, angry, and absolutely go nuts!!!! Try the Cheeto challege on your ADHD child and see if you get the same results. We avoid food with dyes now. They now have Cheetos without yellow dye in the health food section.Hi - I'm new and I'm sure you have discussed this over and over. I am just bewildered by what I can feed my child! All ADHD info says to eliminate so many things! So my question now is - What can they eat????!!!!
I'm not the biggest cook, but am wanting to search for a natural food store around me and start getting organic things in our house, not only for our ADHD daughter, but for all of us. I have yet to find one that is less than 30 miles away, which is weird.
So, anyone shop at Wal-Mart and know what to get there? Having four children, I need this to be a convenient for me as possible...
Do you know of any books or cookbooks that specify these things??
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
Artificial Colour: 95% of the synthetic colourings are coal tar derivative. Red #40 is a possible carcinogen. Yellow #6 (tartrazine) has the potential to cause respiratory distress and hyperactivity.Buy all of your foods from the outside parts of the store. Buy meat and fresh or frozen vegetables.(the veggies should say things like "corn" or "carrots". Make a huge pot of broth on saturday and during the week boil with rice or noodles (read the ingredients) for a nice side dish. Buy applesauce that says apples on the ingredient list. Make slow purposeful changes.