Comments on: Very Scary Halloween Candy http://www.cheeseslave.com/2008/10/29/very-scary-halloween-candy/ For the love of cheese. And bacon. And butter. And raw milk. And all those other things we're not supposed to eat. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:06:56 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: cheeseslave http://www.cheeseslave.com/2008/10/29/very-scary-halloween-candy/comment-page-1/#comment-4284 cheeseslave Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:04:57 +0000 http://www.cheeseslave.com/?p=1119#comment-4284 Wow, Mia, this is so horrible. I'm so sorry your family is going through this. And you are right, there are probably many other kids out there who had the exact same damage to their kidneys -- but they don't even know it. It just goes to show you that we really cannot trust industrial food. You never know where the ingredients are from and whether they are safe or not. Wow, Mia, this is so horrible. I’m so sorry your family is going through this.

And you are right, there are probably many other kids out there who had the exact same damage to their kidneys — but they don’t even know it.

It just goes to show you that we really cannot trust industrial food. You never know where the ingredients are from and whether they are safe or not.

]]> By: Mia http://www.cheeseslave.com/2008/10/29/very-scary-halloween-candy/comment-page-1/#comment-4283 Mia Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:01:27 +0000 http://www.cheeseslave.com/?p=1119#comment-4283 This just happened right before thanksgiving 2008, again, after eating tainted candy. She is still not very well, still recovering from the damage of the drug melamine which she received from that halloween candy. We live in Virginia, and it makes me wonder how many other kids were sent home from school, or by their doctors, saying that they had the "flu" but nobody bothered to test their urine to find out the real culprit after halloween. - I was thinking of sending out letters to all the parents in my neighborhood to see if any of their children had the supposed "flu" after Halloween. Had I listened to my daughter's pediatrician and assumed that it was the flu, then we never would have found out the real problem. So how many other parents went home, assumed it was the flu and left it at that? There is no treatment for melamine, only time can fix melamine. So I assume that most kids who "had the flu" with no fever after Halloween, had melamine poisoning. That is my position on that. Mia This just happened right before thanksgiving 2008, again, after eating tainted candy. She is still not very well, still recovering from the damage of the drug melamine which she received from that halloween candy. We live in Virginia, and it makes me wonder how many other kids were sent home from school, or by their doctors, saying that they had the “flu” but nobody bothered to test their urine to find out the real culprit after halloween. – I was thinking of sending out letters to all the parents in my neighborhood to see if any of their children had the supposed “flu” after Halloween. Had I listened to my daughter’s pediatrician and assumed that it was the flu, then we never would have found out the real problem. So how many other parents went home, assumed it was the flu and left it at that? There is no treatment for melamine, only time can fix melamine. So I assume that most kids who “had the flu” with no fever after Halloween, had melamine poisoning. That is my position on that.
Mia

]]> By: Mia http://www.cheeseslave.com/2008/10/29/very-scary-halloween-candy/comment-page-1/#comment-4282 Mia Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:55:07 +0000 http://www.cheeseslave.com/?p=1119#comment-4282 Hi, we live in Virginia, my daughter ate all sorts of candy that she picked up from trick or treating in our neighborhood, after doing some research it was definately chocolate, but because the candy was gone, we had no way to prove it. My kids only eat the common chocolate candies sold, if I don't recognize the name, we throw it out, so it was a popular brand, but we never could determine which one it was. I let the CDC and the FDA and my local health department know about her illness. She is still having kidney problems, but she is getting better each day, her appetite is slowly getting better, it's been a long road. She was 100% healthy, and never a sick day in her 6 years until she at the candy at halloween, things will never be the same for our family now. Our children do not eat anything that contains a milk powder it it, that means chocolate, and milk powder drinks like nestle as well. Here is a link to all the foods that may have melamine in them from the FDA website, this month that put an alert on importing any milk powders from foreign countries, so hopefully the problem will resolve soon, but still there are tons of foods on our shelves that contain milk powders and whey from china, so it's a scary time right now. Here: http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/melamine.html Hi, we live in Virginia, my daughter ate all sorts of candy that she picked up from trick or treating in our neighborhood, after doing some research it was definately chocolate, but because the candy was gone, we had no way to prove it. My kids only eat the common chocolate candies sold, if I don’t recognize the name, we throw it out, so it was a popular brand, but we never could determine which one it was. I let the CDC and the FDA and my local health department know about her illness. She is still having kidney problems, but she is getting better each day, her appetite is slowly getting better, it’s been a long road. She was 100% healthy, and never a sick day in her 6 years until she at the candy at halloween, things will never be the same for our family now. Our children do not eat anything that contains a milk powder it it, that means chocolate, and milk powder drinks like nestle as well. Here is a link to all the foods that may have melamine in them from the FDA website, this month that put an alert on importing any milk powders from foreign countries, so hopefully the problem will resolve soon, but still there are tons of foods on our shelves that contain milk powders and whey from china, so it’s a scary time right now.

Here: http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/melamine.html

]]> By: cheeseslave http://www.cheeseslave.com/2008/10/29/very-scary-halloween-candy/comment-page-1/#comment-4267 cheeseslave Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:27:11 +0000 http://www.cheeseslave.com/?p=1119#comment-4267 Mia, that's terrible!!!!! I'm so sorry that happened to your daughter. How is she doing now? What kind of candy did she eat? And people said I was being alarmist... :-( Mia, that’s terrible!!!!!

I’m so sorry that happened to your daughter. How is she doing now?

What kind of candy did she eat?

And people said I was being alarmist… :-(

]]> By: Mia http://www.cheeseslave.com/2008/10/29/very-scary-halloween-candy/comment-page-1/#comment-4266 Mia Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:08:23 +0000 http://www.cheeseslave.com/?p=1119#comment-4266 My daughter is a victim of the dangers of melamine. Shortly after Halloween, and after eating Halloween candy, she became deathly ill, she refused to eat or drink for a week, she lost so much weight, she was just skin and bones. The doctors tried to tell us that it was the flu, but she had NO fever. After a week of not eating, we got worried and took her to the children's hospital (she had just turned 6 years old in Oct 2008). The hospital thought it was the flu too, until they tested her urine, then they freaked out saying that they couldn't believe it, but they had found over 20,000 or more kidney crystals in her urine and blood! I was so upset! Turns out, after a long investigation, my daughter consumed contaminated candy that contained melamine. It's a scary world now that we live in. My daughter is a victim of the dangers of melamine. Shortly after Halloween, and after eating Halloween candy, she became deathly ill, she refused to eat or drink for a week, she lost so much weight, she was just skin and bones. The doctors tried to tell us that it was the flu, but she had NO fever. After a week of not eating, we got worried and took her to the children’s hospital (she had just turned 6 years old in Oct 2008). The hospital thought it was the flu too, until they tested her urine, then they freaked out saying that they couldn’t believe it, but they had found over 20,000 or more kidney crystals in her urine and blood! I was so upset! Turns out, after a long investigation, my daughter consumed contaminated candy that contained melamine.
It’s a scary world now that we live in.

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