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Red 40 will give me migraines. I only found out it was the culprit because I had a blood test that showed my body reacting to it. At this point, I filter out ar

Red 40 will give me migraines. I only found out it was the culprit because I had a blood test that showed my body reacting to it. At this point, I filter out artificial colors altogether (or at least as much as feasible).

maxerickson 4y ago
There's enough people sensitive or allergic to Yellow 5 (tartrazine) that you can search on it. It seems that tartrazine develops when you make caramel color. The titanium dioxide and silicon dioxide mentioned at the link are white and yellow/cream white.
throwaway290 4y ago
How did you decide to test that? Did you have to do many other blood tests along the way? Last time I got a handful of blood tests it felt like I lost a whole bucket of blood, hard to imagine doing anything like that by choice again
esperent 4y ago
I get migraines from something in food. I've done elimination diets and I'm pretty sure it's none of the obvious candidates like histamine, phosphates etc. But there's only so much you can learn from elimination diets, they're a blunt chisel as an instrument of discovery. I'm at a loss for how to dig deeper. Where did you find someone to test your blood for something as specific as red 40? Is it an allergy test or something?
- treeman79 4y ago
  I was completely disabled from migraines. My elimination diet helped migraines a lot. But not cured. Magnesium. Vit d3/k2, omega 3, got me a whole lot farther. FL-41 glasses helped a lot with light triggers. I stopped needing them after about a year on vitamins. Getting rid of all scents and perfumes was a big help. The final that actually took me from greatly improved but still severe to mostly cured? TMJ. Dentist suggested it. I found a bob and Brad massage video. Much to my surprise I discovered a really tight spot just above the jaw. Took me three days of massaging it for it to finally loosen up. Boom. No more migraines. I have to massage it out about monthly or so. It really likes to tighten up.
  - PaulHoule 4y ago
    I thought I had some problem w/ my shoulder and/or headaches, I never thought it was my jaw until my dentist told me I was grinding my teeth. I tried a bite guard and found the pain became highly localized in my jaw and realized my jaw was clicking. TMJ! After two years w/ the bite guard I feel a lot better, it's been a long time since my jaw clicked or popped although an emotional event last December caused the pain to flare up again for a few weeks.
    - treeman79 4y ago
      https://youtu.be/AADn4A8r1y0 https://youtu.be/AADn4A8r1y0 Massage videos I used to resolve issue.
thwarted 4y ago
When I was seven or eight years old, red Koolaid was banned in my household because my mom maintained that the red dye made us kids act crazy/wild. One might think it was the sugar content, but my scout troop never made red "bug juice" (flavor powder packets only, in big containers of water, no sugar) either. I think there was some study done in the 70s about this, which is probably what people latched onto to explain kids' oddities, but my mom used to claim it was observable.
- giantg2 4y ago
  They have newer studies showing a possible link between multiple synthetic dyes and child behavioral issues, with red dye being the worst. It supposedly also affects males more than females. I believe the EU has found it credible enough to mandate warning labels on foods containing synthetic dyes. This part is just my speculation, but I imagine many boys in school could have been medicated due to their behavioral/learning issues, which might have been the product of their diet (dyes and sugar).

maxerickson 4y ago

There's enough people sensitive or allergic to Yellow 5 (tartrazine) that you can search on it. It seems that tartrazine develops when you make caramel color. The titanium dioxide and silicon dioxide mentioned at the link are white and yellow/cream white.

throwaway290 4y ago

How did you decide to test that? Did you have to do many other blood tests along the way? Last time I got a handful of blood tests it felt like I lost a whole bucket of blood, hard to imagine doing anything like that by choice again

esperent 4y ago

I get migraines from something in food. I've done elimination diets and I'm pretty sure it's none of the obvious candidates like histamine, phosphates etc. But there's only so much you can learn from elimination diets, they're a blunt chisel as an instrument of discovery. I'm at a loss for how to dig deeper. Where did you find someone to test your blood for something as specific as red 40? Is it an allergy test or something?

treeman79 4y ago
I was completely disabled from migraines. My elimination diet helped migraines a lot. But not cured. Magnesium. Vit d3/k2, omega 3, got me a whole lot farther. FL-41 glasses helped a lot with light triggers. I stopped needing them after about a year on vitamins. Getting rid of all scents and perfumes was a big help. The final that actually took me from greatly improved but still severe to mostly cured? TMJ. Dentist suggested it. I found a bob and Brad massage video. Much to my surprise I discovered a really tight spot just above the jaw. Took me three days of massaging it for it to finally loosen up. Boom. No more migraines. I have to massage it out about monthly or so. It really likes to tighten up.
- PaulHoule 4y ago
  I thought I had some problem w/ my shoulder and/or headaches, I never thought it was my jaw until my dentist told me I was grinding my teeth. I tried a bite guard and found the pain became highly localized in my jaw and realized my jaw was clicking. TMJ! After two years w/ the bite guard I feel a lot better, it's been a long time since my jaw clicked or popped although an emotional event last December caused the pain to flare up again for a few weeks.
  - treeman79 4y ago
    https://youtu.be/AADn4A8r1y0 https://youtu.be/AADn4A8r1y0 Massage videos I used to resolve issue.

thwarted 4y ago

When I was seven or eight years old, red Koolaid was banned in my household because my mom maintained that the red dye made us kids act crazy/wild. One might think it was the sugar content, but my scout troop never made red "bug juice" (flavor powder packets only, in big containers of water, no sugar) either. I think there was some study done in the 70s about this, which is probably what people latched onto to explain kids' oddities, but my mom used to claim it was observable.

giantg2 4y ago
They have newer studies showing a possible link between multiple synthetic dyes and child behavioral issues, with red dye being the worst. It supposedly also affects males more than females. I believe the EU has found it credible enough to mandate warning labels on foods containing synthetic dyes. This part is just my speculation, but I imagine many boys in school could have been medicated due to their behavioral/learning issues, which might have been the product of their diet (dyes and sugar).