[DYSPHAGIA] blue dye

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

--- ShariEllen@aol.com wrote:
> I use regular supermarket blue dye (next to the
> vanilla extract!) during 
> FEES-type exams with our ENT in the nursing home. 
> It turns vanilla pudding a 
> lovely aqua, and thickened apple juice a nasty shade
> of greenish yuck.  
> 
It's this nasty greenish color that causes the
identification problems. As you know, the lungs can
produce some very nasty, green/yellow yuck all by
themselves.
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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