[DYSPHAGIA] blue dye causing deaths?

[eripley@yahoo.com (Irene Campbell-Taylor)]

Thank you for passing this on, Bonnie. There are other
reasons for avoiding Evans blue, among them allergy
and mistakes re ocult blood in stool. That's why the
usual recommendation for coloring enteral feeds is to
add red food coloring - no, it doesn't look anything
like blood or any other bodily excreta you can think
of, unlike blue dye that can turn greenish and be
confused with infected sputum, pus etc. Try it. Put
some red food coloring into some Ensure and watch it
turn to something like Pepto Bismol or strawberry
pudding, depending on how much you add. There's no
mistaking it, in my experience. Anyone use it
regularly?
Irene.


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Irene Campbell-Taylor, PhD
Clinical Neuroscientist

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Oscar Wilde.

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