On Notice

[annuin]

Dear Pharmaceutical Companies,


Please stop putting food dye in children's medications.

Besides the fact that many kids respond to food dyes in unpleasant ways (hyperactivity etc.), do you have any idea how fucking annoying it is to have to try and wash out pink stains from clothes worn by a toddler reluctant to drink the unnaturally red-pinkish cough syrup*? If not, by all means come over to my house sometime soon.

Tylenol, you are partially excused for actually having a dye-free version of your infant Tylenol.

Regards,


Me


* And this was syringe-fed, not spoon-fed too.

Comments

[illiana-galean.livejournal.com]

Dimetapp isn't to bad stain wise, but yeah, the pink, green, lime medications are just insane. I swear they do it on purpose so that the kiddo clothing companies get more monies as the stains get worse.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Dimetapp is the one I fed Dashiell. I haven't yet seen the post-wash results though.

It's just so pointless to really even have the colouring in the medications anyway. I doubt your kids go "oh yeah, I'll drink that because it's green cough syrup!".

[notagod.livejournal.com]

*understands*. We have to explicitly ask for the colour free version over here. It is available, just not easy to find.

[missingkeys.livejournal.com]

Fucking YES!

*smites the lot of them*

And food colours in everything else too. God. Last night I went to make a really simple meal. Six ingredients for dinner and dessert. Ingredient one, fine. Ingredient two, the fourth was safe. Ingredient three, the sixth. Ingredient four had half an aisle of various brands and types, and ONE was safe. Ingredient five was easy, ingredient six was impossible to buy completely safe and we had to settle for separating it to make a version she could eat.

I'm sick of the bullshit.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Natural/organic food stores are a lot better as far as that goes. But then those stores are harder to find, and often a little more expensive too. But they're low on the chemical and synthetic additives and preservatives and other crap you really don't need in food.

The thing that gets me though is that food dye reactions aren't a new thing, so manufacturers ought to know and cater to the dye-less crowd. I remember a friend's kid sister who couldn't consume red dye without going all hyper, and she's got to be 20 by now.

[missingkeys.livejournal.com]

Bill was intolerant to food colours, and I have a cousin who was possibly even worse than Della. They did a more comprehensive exclusion diet and reintroduction of foods and so she was a little more free, but of course this was the eighties and perhaps things had less crap then. I've no idea. I just know she could eat some M&M's colours, and I'd die before letting Della try any of them.

[replicantgrrl.livejournal.com]

this goes for pet medications too! my god! why in the hell do you need it in cat medication????

i have pink stains on my molding near the floor in the bathroom from trying to give my kitty (syringe-fed as well) medication.