SC - red food colouring

[Laura C Minnick]

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 Robyn.Hodgkin at affa.gov.au wrote:

> Maybe the hall is very red food colouring allergy aware.  If you serve red
> punch where there are children about it could end up pretty messy, with
> reactions including uncontrolled violence, hysteria, and generally running
> around high as a kite.  Red food colouring is a pretty common allergy. 

Personally I would suspect the sugar , not the dye. However, when the dye
generates this kind of a response , the medical-types call it a
_sensitivity_. The group my allergist is in is pretty adamant that a true
food _allergy_ involves an anaphalactic response. Hives, wheezing, etc.
Iam am _sensitive_ to fresh ginger- I'll spend the rest of the day in the
bathroom, but I am _allergic_ to my beloved avocadoes, which nearly killed
me last time I partook. The throat swelling shut was especially scary. 

'Lainie (who will eat an entire bowl of guacamole if she ever needs to
commit suicide)
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Laura C. Minnick
University of Oregon
Department of English
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"Libraries have been the death of many great men, particularly the
Bodleian."
	Humfrey Wanley, c. 1731




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