DD gave us a scare in the night
 

About 1:30 this morning, I got up to find that DD had just thrown up what appeared to be a large amount of blood. I woke up DH, who, fortunately, had the presence of mind to take a sample with us, and we headed to the ER.

On the way there, DH questioned DD again on what she'd had to eat. We'd just had fish sticks and fries, plus a few carrots and strawberries, before she'd headed off to her Wednesday night activities. She didn't eat that many strawberries, and I just couldn't believe that could do it.

Then, she mentioned the Oreos. At her YW meeting, she had eaten several Oreos with RED filling.

Yep, the sample tested negative for blood. We had been duped by RED DYE in cookies. She actually had mentioned those cookies to me before she went to bed, but not actually having seen them, it did not occur to me until it came up again. (No pun actually intended.)

These cookies seemed to be marketed to somehow go along with a currently popular children's movie about taming your dragon. So, mothers, watch out for that red dye!!

mary

YUCK! I'm glad that everything turned out well.

My that had to be scarey! I'm, so glad she's ok.

I'm sorry you had such a scare! Those food dyes are REALLY potent. When my son was potty training we had an incident involving some vanilla type oreo cookies with one cookie dyed bright yellow and the other robin's egg blue - the brilliant GREEN results we discovered on the next trip to the potty nearly gave me a heart attack until I remembered the cookies.

Nothing compared to the fear I can imagine you felt at the bright red - but really unexpected.

Oh my, green pee would have set me back, too.

Did I mention that I hate Oreos?;)

In my circle of friends, the cake I baked for my first daughter's 2nd birthday will always be famous. It was an Elmo cake, lots of red frosting. I think every guest/family called the next day to report on what was found in the diaper or potty! I'd never thought of such a thing before!

My daughter wanted green cupcakes for her last birthday. DH did a test run with a green velvet cake at St. Pats. We went with green icing on chocolate cupcakes instead....

I still remember the pediatrician who told me that food dye wouldn't make it thru the digestive tract. I don't think he had any children. :rolleyes:

Watch out for the black icee from BK - Purple BMs (lol!!)

I once at a jar of pickles, that must have had some dye added to it.....well, the next day I thought I gave birth to a large green pickle.

LOL!!
It wasn't pee!

I just about sprayed my screen with pepsi! You gave me a great laugh for this morning :thumb:

Aww poor girl ! I hope she's feeling better !

When I was 16 I was terribly sick (ended up having pneumonia) but my Mom didn't believe me and gave me Thera-flu (cherry flavored) to drink .I think she gave it to me because it tasted so bad ,she thought I'd quit whining (haha) ,well about 5 minutes after drinking it I threw it up and it was bright red .The look on my Mom's face was priceless .She thought it was blood ! haha She was nicer after that .

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

Grandma had the kids one weekend. Have you seen the "octopus" meals in the craft magazines where you dye the Ramon noodles green and slice up the hot dogs to make an octopus before you cook them?? I had the piece of mind to NOT freak out at what I found in DD's diaper until I called G'ma first. I was right they had made octopus, but DS had put way too much coloring in as G'ma had him helping. Mom had no idea it would "go through". I forget what color is was, but the "end result" wasn't green...I think it was blue.

Poor kid.

Oreos with red dye would make me vomit, too.

I guess I just don't see why food manufacturers have to do stuff like this -- what's the point of putting more chemicals in food that already has a half-life of about a thousand years?

Oh, Mary, how frightening! Glad Karen is ok and it wasn't anything serious! I remember when my twins were babies, and had a flu. My MIL told me to give them jello water, to settle their stomachs and hydrate them. I did so, then in a couple days they had loose red BMs. I freaked, but my Mother just asked me what they had eaten. Red jello. Hugs, Jan in Co

Did none of you have Fruity Pebbles as kids? I still remember my cousins talking about their multi-colored poo after eating them.

I think maybe if I had seen her eat them, I would have thought of it, I don't know. DH and I went over what she'd eaten at home, but since I didn't see those Oreos, even though I remember that she did mention it before she went to bed, I didn't think of it. It was scary.

That's kind of what I thought. ;) I'm a chocoholic, and I can't eat Oreos. blech. I can't even fathom why they thought adding red dye to the filling would be a plus.

Funny thing, when I mentioned to DD that this could be a lesson to her about what she eats, she said, "But they tasted good!" lol

Glad everything came out okay...

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. :tmi::run: Lemme tell ya, he screamed like a little girl.

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!

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 :tmi:

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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?

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.