It's Not Just The Food To Watch

If your like me you started by reading labels, removing all colors you could find, like the red and yellow dies or anything that read FD&C# on the boxes. You stopped using nutrasweet and the bad sugars, then you found the other nasties on the boxes like BHA, BHT, and TBHQ.

But did you know you had to watch your prescription and over the counter medicines? Children's medicines are loaded with artificial colors and flavorings. They put it in there to make it taste better so kids will like it, but in the meantime if you have a child who reacts they could be double trouble during when taking the medicines. Even if your child doesn't have a major reaction to the artificial flavors, once you learn how bad they really are you may have a hard time giving them to your children. There are other options, you can get dye free suspensions made by a compounding pharmacy and flavor them yourself. Many of the same medicines in pill form, even generic are color free. But unfortunately not all prescription meds or over the counter meds can be found color free as they are purposely colored to be able to tell the difference at the pharmacy. Work with your Dr and pharmacy to figure out what is the best for you and your child, just know there are other options. It may take some work tracking them down, but well worth it if you need to remove the bad stuff from your diet.