Both adults and children can be badly affected by this dye which is used extensively in all manner of foods, medications, and health supplements.

I write from personal experience - not only having researched the chemical composition of this dye and the effects reported by others, but having experienced its effects first-hand as restless legs.

Effects range from headaches to extreme restlessness - in adults as well as children. And what is most alarming is that the very tiny amount of this dye that is present as the colouring of only a single tablet or capsule - can produce these effects.

Brilliant Blue goes by various names, and is added to foods, sweets, drinks, medications, supplements, and toothpaste (ideal for causing Restless Legs at night). It is also mixed with tartrazine (a colourant) to produce various shades of green (yet tartrazine alone usually gets the blame for causing hyperactivity in children).

Because such a minute amount of many toxic dyes can pass through the blood-brain barrier and profoundly affect cognition, peace of mind, quality of life and behaviour. In order to experience quick relief, one has to eliminate all of them - from both foods and body-care products. Once this is done, relief may be expected in hours rather than days. A feeling of profound peace is the experience as a result of freedom from agitation.  And of course one becomes very much more alert and focused because of the abscence of the 'inner' distractions.