Migraine

Found this this morning: Blue M&Ms

So what do you think?

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Found this this morning: Blue M&Ms

So what do you think?

I think I need to convince dh I need blue M&Ms and some blue Gatorade!

I think I'd also have to eat a ton of M&Ms to possibly see relief.

I love M & Ms. It would be awesome if that would work, but I am not that lucky.

Here's a question though, if this really would help if you ate sufficient quantities of the dye, would you be willing to have blue skin if it meant fewer migraines? I know captain kirk was into green women sometimes but I'm not sure what my husband would think...

If only it were so simple as blue food dye!

Kelly

Geeze! And to think that all this time I thought the migraine magic was in the orange ones!

It really seems farfetched. That was my first reaction to this, but then I remembered several strange things about me:

1) I am ADHD and a classic trigger to cause a meltdown when I was a kid was anything with red food coloring--Hawaiian Punch, Hot Dogs, Artificial Strawberry, red jello, those plaque cleaning tablets we use to get in school.

2) Remember the study last year about chocolate helping some people with migraines.

If this was the cure for migraines, then I guess at least people would never be able to ignore that we suffer from them if we were all blue.

Mary in NM

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1) I am ADHD and a classic trigger to cause a meltdown when I was a kid was anything with red food coloring--Hawaiian Punch, Hot Dogs, Artificial Strawberry, red jello, those plaque cleaning tablets we use to get in school.

2) Remember the study last year about chocolate helping some people with migraines.

1.) Nikoli's kindergarten teacher was trying every way possible to tell me he was ADHD without saying it and brought up the red food coloring - I would always tell her we didn't use processed foods. She told me it affected her son.

2.) Dark chocolate M&Ms can help with a cough, honest. We read it somewhere and I used it last time I had a cough and it worked. The Hershey's dark chocolate did not.

Red food coloring was changed about 15 years ago from the worst offender that was the one when I was a kid. However, food allergies to food dyes is still very common. My nephew get hives from one of the common ones.

So---

How do we get enough blue dark chocolate M&Ms to experiment with short of buying 10 bags of M&Ms at a time to sort the blue ones out of. Do you think Hershey would bag us up some bags of just blue ones???? I'm sure it will take a lot per dose, right!!!!

Tracie

I think if Hershey got wind that we Migraineurs were getting help from their blue M&M's they'd really hike up the price on us! But, I bet they'd bag them for us. They do holiday colors, right? Why not blue for Migraine?

Oh and Mary, I think it is a very good point that people would no longer be able to ignore that we are suffering if we'd be blue! That's a good perk!

Kelly

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Originally posted by tracieB:
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How do we get enough blue dark chocolate M&Ms to experiment with short of buying 10 bags of M&Ms at a time to sort the blue ones out of. Do you think Hershey would bag us up some bags of just blue ones???? I'm sure it will take a lot per dose, right!!!!

Tracie

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Red food coloring was changed about 15 years ago from the worst offender that was the one when I was a kid.

Good to know.

What's the latest thought on chocolate? This was one of my first recognizable trigger, granted that was YEARS ago! Think I would try the blue sports drink before M&M's, I do remember loving three muskateers...

lisa

Does it have to be the "real" M% m product? Some off brands offer blue-coated chocolate morsels in the same shape of M%M's...of course without the logo.

Maybe it's the logo. Maybe not. I'll report back after I've hit the dollar store for the all blue ones!

Some places do carry special order all-one-color bags of M & M's. You can get them for weddings and the like in your colors, and sometimes even get them printed.

Just googling blue M's, I also found reference to the dye, known as Brilliant Blue Dye, or BBD, seeming to aid in the treatment of spinal injuries.