Feeling Sick from Artificial Sweeteners?

maria7bella

I think I may be feeling sick from artificial sweeteners. Nauseated for months now and the only thing I can connect is Splenda and Nutrasweet. Has anyone else feel this way?:frown:

I've been eating it in my oatmeal every day, my low carb yogurt almost everyday, plus chewing 4-8 pieces of gum and having 1-3 artificially sweetened drinks every day.

I am going to cut all of that put and see how it goes.

MaterMama

I avoid artificial sweeteners because I get really bad headaches when I don't. I also get a bad metal taste.

Babrao

I switched from sugar to Splenda about 6 months ago and I have had no problems with it. I use them in my Coffee, Hot Tea & Unsweetend Ice Tea. Maybe between 2 to 10 packets a day? How many are you using?

DiamondInTheDirt

Youre better off using brown sugar than sweeteners...plus i hate the artificial taste.

RoanneRed

Try cutting out one kind or the other and see if that fixes it? I don't have a problem with Splenda but generally avoid Nutrasweet.

bigislandgrrl

I only use Splenda because its derived from Sugar and not a man made sweetner. I only use about a teaspoon to a tablespoon a day.

bcampbell54

I guess it depends on how much your using, but I've never had any such feelings. I'm pretty much Splenda only, when I use it. You should try cutting it out for a week and see if it makes a difference; if not?

Ely82010

I also use Splenda in my coffee(s), twice day (2 packets). No problems what so ever.

FitnessDivaK

According to this article nausea is a common side effect of most artificial sweeteners: http://www.newliving.com/issues/jan_07/articles/sweeteners.html

lunamare

Yes, not so much aspertame (I think diet Coke for umteengazillion years has made me immune) but Splenda made me very sick. I was starting to think I was lactose intolerant and then I read the side effects of Splenda and realized that was my issue. I cut it out and felt much better.

Kimbie500

Nutrasweet is a migraine trigger for me and saccharin gives me bloody noses. I've not had any problems with Splenda. (Caveat: I try not to eat any artificial sweeteners because of my experiences with NS and saccharin, so I've not eaten a lot of it.)

You could try Stevia - it's non/low-caloric and is supposed to be a more natural sweetener.

janeyloveslife

I also feel sick from artifical sweetners. I'm prone to getting migraines, and they just make me feel nauseous. I even tried Stevia lately with no luck. I'm just sticking with the real deal - to a minimum.

vs1023

Splenda gave me anxiety. No joke. I was using like 4-5 a day in my coffee, plus in my yogurt, etc and I was like enough is enough. Caused me to want more sugary foods. Have you researched splenda - very bad for you. Try to find pure stevia if you need a little sweetness or use organic sugar in moderation. Those yogurts also have HFCS in them which is not good either. I think you will find you feel better if you get rid of the artificial stuff. I like to think back to my grandparents and how they lived. My grandmother lived to 91 on a whole food diet, none of this processed crap.

Liluth

Anything with aspartame in it gives me an awful headache. If that isn't a sign they're bad for, I don't want to know what is.

maria7bella

Thanks everyone. I am cutting them out completely! Already this morning I feel better. I hope it lasts.

lesliemk

Yes! Good for you, I whole heartedly agree on cutting them out completely!! Nutrasweet, Spenda, Ideal, etc.... are all aspartame or sucralose, which is FAKE sugar. Your body doesn't recognize it and can't process it and they've been linked to myriad of health issues too, Real sugar on occasion won't hurt you, at least it's REAL! Otherwise, I use Stevia or Xylitol when necessary for baking and maple syrup or raw honey too. Clean eating all the way baby!

bugnbeansmom

It makes me sick as well. Really sick to my stomach and headaches. One of my friends was having heart palpitations unitl she stopped using them. Try a little bit of honey instead.

HMonsterX

Some people will have adverse reactions to artificial sweeteners. In the same way some people, like me, have adverse reactions to cheese.

If you do, simply don't have it anymore. If you don't carry on having it! For most people it's totally fine and safe.

NiciS72

OMG, I was going to post about this this morning but decided to do a search. I cut out all artificial sweeteners several months ago (except Stevia). Yesterday I brilliantly decided to grab the Crystal Light and use it in my water. I started feeling nauseous last night and had a slight headache. This morning I woke with a sick headache and generally feel like crap. About an hour ago I started getting that nausea that you feel in your salivary glands and it won't go away even with mint gum! The ONLY thing I changed was adding in Crystal Light yesterday and this morning. UGH, I'm not drinking anymore and I sure hope this goes away QUICK!

ixiHemlock

My favourite is liquid stevia. You just add a few drops and it tastes great without the nausea later.

It's an all natural plant extract and has no calories.

SimpleStepsHealthCoach

Hi maria7bella,

In the last year I have cut out all artificial sweeteners from my diet. This includes Splenda, aspartame, and high-fructose corn syrup. I now use organic cane sugar or organic agave nectar (both in moderation). With that said, a few times when I have taken a sip/bite out of something using artificial sweeteners I do feel nauseated. I also can taste the sweeteners right away and, for me, they have a chemical taste to them that I no longer enjoy.

With my experience, and in other member's replies, it doesn't seem like you are alone in this. Maybe just stick with the real stuff?

Cheers,
y.

TripleJ3

I only use Splenda because its derived from Sugar and not a man made sweetner. I only use about a teaspoon to a tablespoon a day.

You can use Splenda as wish, but saying its not man-made is completely false. You should do some research on it. They may "start" with a sugar molecule, but after they are done engineering it, it is not longer "real".

In 2006, Merisant, the maker of Equal, filed suit against McNeil Nutritionals in U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, alleging that Splenda's tagline "Made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar" is misleading. McNeil argued during the trial that it had never deceived consumers or set out to deceive them, since the product is in fact made from sugar. Merisant asked that McNeil be ordered to surrender profits and modify its advertising. The case ended with an agreement reached outside of court, with undisclosed settlement conditions.[26] The lawsuit was the latest move in a long-simmering dispute. In 2004, Merisant filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau regarding McNeil's advertising. McNeil alleged that Merisant's complaint was in retaliation for a ruling in federal court in Puerto Rico, which forced Merisant to stop packaging Equal in packages resembling Splenda's. McNeil filed suit in Puerto Rico seeking a ruling which would declare its advertising to not be misleading. Following Merisant's lawsuit in Philadelphia, McNeil agreed to a jury trial and to the dismissal of its lawsuit in Puerto Rico. However, on May 11, 2007, the parties reached a settlement on the case, the terms of which were not disclosed.[6] Currently, Splenda is advertised with the slogan, "It starts with sugar. It tastes like sugar. But it's not sugar."[27]
In 2007, Merisant France prevailed in the Commercial Court of Paris against subsidiaries of McNeil Nutritionals LLC. The court awarded Merisant $54,000 in damages and ordered the defendants to cease advertising claims found to violate French consumer protection laws, including the slogans "Because it comes from sugar, sucralose tastes like sugar" and "With sucralose: Comes from sugar and tastes like sugar".[28]
A Sugar Association complaint to the Federal Trade Commission stated that "Splenda is not a natural product. It is not cultivated or grown and it does not occur in nature."[29] McNeil Nutritionals, the manufacturer of Splenda, has responded that its "advertising represents the products in an accurate and informative manner and complies with applicable advertising rules in the countries where Splenda brand products are marketed."[30] The U.S. Sugar Association created a web site to criticise sucralose which cites an association-sponsored study.[31]


SPLENDA® Is It Safe or Not?

After twenty years of NutraSweet® (aspartame) dominating the sweetener market, people are realizing for themselves that aspartame really is a foul food chemical tragically harmful to their health. Now, people think Johnson & Johnson’s Splenda, made from sucralose, has come to the rescue as the newest chemical sugar replacement “made from real sugar.” People don’t want to hear that it may be just as dangerous as aspartame, and this white knight of sweeteners is no better improvement.

New chemical sweeteners (like Splenda) and the sweetener blends (aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame K blended together in one product) may be causing users to show signs of weight gain, disruption of sleep patterns, sexual dysfunction, increases in cancer, MS, Lupus, diabetes, and a list of epidemic degenerative diseases. The corporations continue to stand tough in their denial of any connection to chemical sweetener additives.

This website takes you into the world of Splenda; ready or not, here we go again.

The Chlorine In Splenda

Chlorine is commonly found in nature, but almost always in combination with other building block elements. Chlorine's structure makes it very reactive and because it is so reactive, it is very useful to chemists, engineers and others involved in making things humans use every day.

The inventors of Splenda admit around fifteen percent (15%) of sucralose is absorbed by the body, but they cannot guarantee us (out of this fifteen percent) what amount of chlorine stays in the body and what percent flushes out.




Not trying to be a jerk, anyone can use Splenda as much as they wish, but saying its "natural" is false.

UponThisRock

not at all

HMonsterX

Well, over 200 million people consume aspartame with no ill effects, so it shows those that do suffer are in the vast minority, and as it's used in over 6,000 products including carbonated soft drinks, powdered soft drinks, chewing gum, confections, gelatins, dessert mixes, puddings and fillings, frozen desserts, yogurt, tabletop sweeteners, and some pharmaceuticals such as vitamins and sugar-free cough drops, it's pretty popular!

I love it myself, saved me several hundred calories a day with no ill effects!

esmither1

XYLITOL is very TOXIC FOR DOGS. Don't keep any food products containing Xylitol where your pets can reach it. Even check your gummy vitamins and candy because they can also contain it. Here's more info: http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/xylitol.asp
I can't think it can be good for people either.

vim_n_vigor

Some people are very sensitive to artificial sweeteners and have to cut them out completely. Good luck!

jess7386

The first time I ever drank splenda I put 2-3 in a medium tea (not knowing it was more potent than sugar) & immediately threw up. The only way I connected the dots is that I did the same thing the next day & it happened again.

I have consumed it since then, very sparingly, in small doses - I've been fine (except for once when I drank a pool of it at the end of the cup - instant nausea again).

FYI - I drink diet coke almost every day, so I have no crusade against artificial sweeteners. Really, I don't care what people do either way. I just wanted to let the OP know that it ABSOLUTELY is possible to be nauseous from artificial sweeteners, especially if you use a lot of it.

vabheegaard

Coincidentially, just read a great article about artifical sweetners. Great facts and a great read!! Came out today! Great for those of you who LOVE diet sodas!



How Diet Soda Makes You Fat (and Other Food and Diet Industry Secrets)- HUF POST

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/diet-soda-health_b_2698494.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

psych0kitty

I only use Splenda because its derived from Sugar and not a man made sweetner. I only use about a teaspoon to a tablespoon a day.

Except not so much. This is an excerpt from http://www.newliving.com/issues/jan_07/articles/sweeteners.html

"Sucralose, also known as SPLENDA(r), is a totally artificial substance manufactured by Johnson & Johnson and is made by adding three atoms of chlorine to a starting substance, which may be extracted from various compounds, including sucrose(sugar) or raffinose (a substance found in beans and onions). The manufacturing process involves the use of many chemicals, including trityl chloride, acetic anhydride, thionyl chloride in the presence of dimethylformamide, 4-methylmorpholine and methyl isobutyl ketone. The end product, sucralose, is a man-made chlorocarbon chemical that has a sweet taste. This is a far cry from the manufacturer's premise that sucralose is really a 'no-calorie sugar.'The fact is, the chemical composition of sucralose more closely resembles pesticides than natural sugar."

I've always felt sick from artificial sweeteners - nausea and migraines. I have to get all my chewing gum from health food stores now, because even though I used to be able to chew Doublemint gum, they started ADDING aspartame to it (so now it has sugar and nutrasweet... smooth).

bokodasu

I have a very bad reaction to sucralose (Splenda) and it's in freakin' everything. I just want to chew some gum! And I know one other person who reacts the same way I do, but for most people it seems to be fine. So if you ask a bunch of random Internet people, most of them are going to say "oh, it's fine, relax" and two or three are going to run around screaming POISON! POWDERY DEATH! INSTANT CANCER PACKETS!

Try cutting it out. If you feel better, then go with that - other people not having a problem with something really doesn't have any bearing on what you should do for your health.

Akimajuktuq

I only use Splenda because its derived from Sugar and not a man made sweetner. I only use about a teaspoon to a tablespoon a day.

You can use Splenda as wish, but saying its not man-made is completely false. You should do some research on it. They may "start" with a sugar molecule, but after they are done engineering it, it is not longer "real".

In 2006, Merisant, the maker of Equal, filed suit against McNeil Nutritionals in U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, alleging that Splenda's tagline "Made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar" is misleading. McNeil argued during the trial that it had never deceived consumers or set out to deceive them, since the product is in fact made from sugar. Merisant asked that McNeil be ordered to surrender profits and modify its advertising. The case ended with an agreement reached outside of court, with undisclosed settlement conditions.[26] The lawsuit was the latest move in a long-simmering dispute. In 2004, Merisant filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau regarding McNeil's advertising. McNeil alleged that Merisant's complaint was in retaliation for a ruling in federal court in Puerto Rico, which forced Merisant to stop packaging Equal in packages resembling Splenda's. McNeil filed suit in Puerto Rico seeking a ruling which would declare its advertising to not be misleading. Following Merisant's lawsuit in Philadelphia, McNeil agreed to a jury trial and to the dismissal of its lawsuit in Puerto Rico. However, on May 11, 2007, the parties reached a settlement on the case, the terms of which were not disclosed.[6] Currently, Splenda is advertised with the slogan, "It starts with sugar. It tastes like sugar. But it's not sugar."[27]
In 2007, Merisant France prevailed in the Commercial Court of Paris against subsidiaries of McNeil Nutritionals LLC. The court awarded Merisant $54,000 in damages and ordered the defendants to cease advertising claims found to violate French consumer protection laws, including the slogans "Because it comes from sugar, sucralose tastes like sugar" and "With sucralose: Comes from sugar and tastes like sugar".[28]
A Sugar Association complaint to the Federal Trade Commission stated that "Splenda is not a natural product. It is not cultivated or grown and it does not occur in nature."[29] McNeil Nutritionals, the manufacturer of Splenda, has responded that its "advertising represents the products in an accurate and informative manner and complies with applicable advertising rules in the countries where Splenda brand products are marketed."[30] The U.S. Sugar Association created a web site to criticise sucralose which cites an association-sponsored study.[31]


SPLENDA® Is It Safe or Not?

After twenty years of NutraSweet® (aspartame) dominating the sweetener market, people are realizing for themselves that aspartame really is a foul food chemical tragically harmful to their health. Now, people think Johnson & Johnson’s Splenda, made from sucralose, has come to the rescue as the newest chemical sugar replacement “made from real sugar.” People don’t want to hear that it may be just as dangerous as aspartame, and this white knight of sweeteners is no better improvement.

New chemical sweeteners (like Splenda) and the sweetener blends (aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame K blended together in one product) may be causing users to show signs of weight gain, disruption of sleep patterns, sexual dysfunction, increases in cancer, MS, Lupus, diabetes, and a list of epidemic degenerative diseases. The corporations continue to stand tough in their denial of any connection to chemical sweetener additives.

This website takes you into the world of Splenda; ready or not, here we go again.

The Chlorine In Splenda

Chlorine is commonly found in nature, but almost always in combination with other building block elements. Chlorine's structure makes it very reactive and because it is so reactive, it is very useful to chemists, engineers and others involved in making things humans use every day.

The inventors of Splenda admit around fifteen percent (15%) of sucralose is absorbed by the body, but they cannot guarantee us (out of this fifteen percent) what amount of chlorine stays in the body and what percent flushes out.




Not trying to be a jerk, anyone can use Splenda as much as they wish, but saying its "natural" is false.

Thanks so much for having the patience to respond to that comment in such detail. I find myself unable to stay focused and rational whenever I see someone parrot the Splenda marketing slogan. I still remember it word for word "it tastes like sugar because it is made from sugar". Total BS. A chlorinated carbohydrate molecule is nothing like sugar. That kind of advertising should be illegal, but instead it has become the status quo for most processed food manufacturers; as long as they have a big name. Small producers can't get away with making similar claims. It's who ya know and the power one yields with gov't agencies, I guess.

Splenda likely had the most successful marketing campaign of all time (by my observation) but that doesn't make it true or safe to consume.