Pedialyte...

Okay, so this is my first official blog. I have blogged before but mostly just rants about women. There may be one or two of those in this blog at some point or another, but mostly this is my mom blog.

My first official order of business is to ask Why?
Why, Pedialyte, why? Why do you torture mothers everywhere with your products?
Let's delve a little further into what I'm talking about, shall we?

Pedialyte, as we all know, makes what is basically a salty, baby version of Gatorade, right? It's what you give a sick baby, so that they will at least take in fluids and have some electrolytes in their system. Not generally used for healthy babies, although I'm sure you could give it to them if you wanted to. Overall, it's a great idea and a wonderful product.
Except for one thing.
Pedialyte comes in a few flavors, there's grape, strawberry, fruit punch, apple, and plain. There may be other flavors, but those are the ones I have come across. My gripe isn't with the flavors, or even the sugar content... I understand there must be flavor if you want children and toddlers to drink the salty stuff. By the way, the plain tastes nasty and I wouldn't give it to a dog I liked.
Anyway...
We all know darn well that flavor has nothing to do with color. The flavor crystals are colorless and generally they add color into the mix, probably to differentiate between the flavors or to make it esthetically pleasing so that the child in question wants to drink it and can easily identify the aforementioned flavor by the color of the liquid.
However...
Whereas this may be a necessary thing for children who are in their right mind and functioning at full capacity, it is absolutely unnecessary for children who are sick, nauseous, or are just plain under the weather. they don't notice what color the drink is that's being offered to them and indeed with toddlers, it generally comes in a brightly colored spill-proof sippy cup because we, as mothers, are smart and we don't want the brightly colored liquid all over the bed, sheets, pajamas, pillows, stuffed animals or carpeting... which is exactly where it ends up anyway because nobody has as yet invented the spill-proof vomiting child.
As every mother knows, the red, purple, orange, pink, green and blue colors used in children's beverages do not wash out. They could moonlight as Rit dye and you probably would never know the difference. They stain... permanently and the dye doesn't dilute when your child first drinks it and then throws it up.
So again, the point of my rant is this:
Dear Pedialyte,
Why do you manufacture a product that has been designed and marketed for sick, nauseous and vomiting children in such VIBRANT, staining colors? You've cost me two of my shirts, a set of crib sheets three stuffed animals and three sets of baby pajamas because those beautiful vibrant colors simply do not wash out when your child projectile vomits them all over the place.
I thank you for your product and for giving new meaning to the term technicolor yawn, but I think I will be going with something a little more economy friendly in the future, thanks.
Yours Truly,
Sonya Wolf

And that's my rant for today.