I'm beginning to wonder if my oldest has a food dye issue. I want to say three times in the last year she's gotten awful migraines, and all three times it was after having something that would have a food dye in it. She gets the aura, then her hand goes numb, then her lip goes numb, and she's generally miserable. This one we caught pretty early, but she'd had birthday cake at gymnastics that had some brightly colored frosting, so I'm wondering if the dye in the frosting caused a problem. It was so bad, my husband wanted to take her to the ER. Since she's had this a few times before, I was able to let him know it was normal. Now I'm thinking I should have her tested....is such a thing possible??? My poor kiddo.
Anything is possible. I had a kid in my cheer leading group allergic to aspirin. I would look into it. Especially since it has happened more than once.
I have reactions when I eat certain foods with yellow coloring. My reaction is mostly a beet red face and neck. It's been so long that I forget if I had any other major issues. I remember feeling like I was on fire and a headache, but not migraine. It took me a while to figure out it was yellow colored foods. It was worst with powdered lemonade drinks, but I also reacted to generic Velveeta and a few other things.
Red #40 Lake tends to cause a lot of reactions in people. So it could def. be possible, however I don't know if it can be tested for or not.
