DD gave us a scare in the night

oldmania · #21 04/15/10, 04:36 PM

Glad everything came out okay...

#22 04/15/10, 04:40 PM

My oldest son is VERY allergic to red food dye #40. It makes him puke. He can't even have an orange or purple tootsie pop.

Usually his dye allergy isn't a problem until it's time for him to get medicine. WHY do they make tylenol and cold meds RED or PURPLE??? He had to have surgery before and the codine was RED. He had a dose before the surgery and a dose after. Then he had a nice hurl on the ride home. Wouldn't have been so bad, but he had surgery on his twisty testicles. Apparently it really relaly really hurts when a guy has surgery on his nut cup and then has to puke.

Lemme tell ya, he screamed like a little girl.

Pony · #23 04/15/10, 07:23 PM

I was babysitting for a neighbor many, many years ago.

She didn't tell me that she'd given her 18 month old beets.

Imagine my panic when I changed the baby's diaper!

thaiblue12 · #24 04/15/10, 07:54 PM

Oh this brings back funny memories.
My daughter around the age of 3 loved Blue's Clues and of course wanted the ice cream. It is blue of course with vanilla cookie paw prints. She ate it and the next day pooped green and thought it was AWESOME, so awesome she yelled for all of us to come and see it. Most of us passed on the request

My son around the age of three was banned from chewing gum. He kept swallowing it and pooping pink, lucky he did not blow bubbles

Yes

chickenmommy · #25 04/15/10, 10:51 PM

Grape koolaid turns green in the diaper. At least it did 31 years ago. I panicked because I never put anything but milk in a bottle and he had apple juice or water in a sippy cup otherwise. Had forgotten the neighbor babysat and thought since she gives hers koolaid in a bottle when she put hers to bed that it would be ok to give mine koolaid, too. This after I told her he only got the bottle at bed time, only milk, and while being rocked. No bottle in the bed. So she filled it with koolaid and laid him down with it. Last time she babysat.

Grandmotherbear · #26 04/16/10, 05:26 AM

When DGS was a baby DD had a real scare- he screamed one night all night and then pooped bright red- didn't believe me when I tolld her it didn't SMELL like blood-came out at the dr office that she had eaten a whole box of cinnamon red hots- then nursed DGS- it gave him colic and bright red poo!

Tracy Rimmer · #27 04/16/10, 07:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chickenmommy

.... she gives hers koolaid in a bottle when she put hers to bed....

You're kidding me? People actually do this? How stupid do you have to be to think that this is a good idea?

tinknal · #28 04/16/10, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dandish

Oh man, TMI. Whole thread packed with TMI. LOL.

Then don't read this!

When I was 14 I "discovered" pickled beets. Ate about a quart of them. Next morning I did my business and thought I was bleeding to death!

Laura Zone 5 · #29 04/16/10, 08:53 AM

Just 3 of MANY sites, why we should never ever eat artificial anything:

http://science-news.org/artificial-f...oring-dangers/

http://hubpages.com/hub/The-dangers-of-food-colorings

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...ld.html?cat=51

Natural Alternatives:

http://cookingresources.suite101.com...ts_and_betanin

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/2991.html

http://www.ehow.com/list_6073263_red...bstitutes.html

chickenmommy · #30 04/16/10, 09:24 AM

When mother was early into the Alzheimers, she forgot what fresh beets do to urine. I hated to laugh at her, I felt really bad about that, but it was the funniest thing because she was trying to tell me privately so no one else would hear, that there was something terribly wrong. Funniest thing. I did take her back into the bathroom to tell her (and laugh) because she thought I should look at the water in the commode. She was relieved, but from that point on I made sure she never had enough to notice so she wouldn't be scared like that again. Poor thing.

And yes Tracy, people still do it 30 years later. Yeah, let me just load this bottle with a bunch of sugar and food dye (not to mention all the unpronounceable chemicals in there) and try to get the baby to go to sleep on that. I have a sister in law that loads her daughter up on sugar every evening, timed perfectly so that her sugar crash coincides with bedtime. What ever happened to a bath and a bedtime story?

Jenn · #31 04/16/10, 12:26 PM

And those poor babies can get ruined teeth from that bottle of sugar water!

The red could be blood is why when you clean out for your colonscopy you can't eat or drink anything red, and why teens foolish enough to try sloe gin (it was red when I was younger, is it still?) for their first drinking bout (and then throw it up) get a ride to the ER.