[CrackMonkey] Non-vegetarian soy milk

[Seth David Schoen]

mike dillon writes:

> from "Popsicle-induced anaphylaxis due to carmine dye allergy" (found at
> http://www.med.umich.edu/intmed/allergy/carmine.htm):
> 
> 	IgE-mediated responses to food colorants are rarely reported (1,2).
> 	Carmine, a biogenic dye added to foods, cosmetics and drugs has been
> 	implicated, however, in occupational asthma (3-6), extrinsic allergic
> 	alveolitis (7,8), cheilitis (9,10), gastrointestinal complaints (4),
> 	urticaria/angioedema, asthma (11) and anaphylactic shock (10,12). 
> 
> mmmmm. tasty. carmine's not just made from beetles, but apparently wonderfully
> healthful as well. enjoy.

I learned what it was from a Berton Roueche story, where some hospital
patients were all getting sicker from (what Judge Kaplan would call a
common-source epidemic) what turned out to be some tainted carmine in
their hospital meals.

Anaphylaxis from a popsicle is just _wrong_.  (Like non-vegetarian soy
milk.)

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