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[DYSPHAGIA] blue dye causing deaths?
Is this risk associated with blue dye limited to certain brands? We
currently use a generic looking brand of blue food coloring for bedside blue
dye tests and I'm wondering if we should switch to something else. Can I
assume the red dye is not associated with the same (fatal) risks as the
blue? Any suggestions on where to get it?
Thank you!
Rebecca
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Rebecca R. Neubert, M.A. CCC-SLP RN2D@virginia.edu
Speech-Language Pathology Dept.
University of Virginia Medical Center
pager: (804) 982-3500 ID# 2462
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Irene Campbell-Taylor [SMTP:eripley@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:32 PM
> To: Bonnie Heintskill
> Cc: dysphagia@medonline.com
> Subject: Re: [DYSPHAGIA] blue dye causing deaths?
>
> 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
>
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