Lots of pumpkin = orange nose?!

[krystals]

Okay, so I'm not surprised... we eat a lot of pumpkin (hey, it's in season here!) and noticed that bubbas nose is a lovely shade of orange. Not so much you'd notice in everyday light, I've just noticed in photos.

So... I'm gathering it's due to the pumpkin. The question I have is- do I need to do anything about it?


(Sorry if it's in the wrong spot, I was tossing up between here and feeding section.)

[minniemouse]

we had that happen too, with them eating lots of sweet potato, carrot etc, it was also on their knees, it eventually goes away itself :-)

[LizLemon]

It's called Carotenemia (no joke), usually brought on by excessive consumption of carrots and other yellow/orange coloured vegies. I had it as a kid and the paed asked if I fed my DS lots of carrot and sweet potato - which I did. I hadn't even noticed that he was going a bit yellow!

Nothing to worry about apparently

[RainbowBrite]

I have noticed it too...and I made a lot of meals pumpkin, carrot and sweet potato in it for him.
It is less noticable as he has gotten older and has a bit more variation in his diet.

[Nai]

Yep it is quite common and does go away by itself

[GoingtobebiginAsia]

Wow. From time to time I've thought DD looked a bit orange. I just thought I was imagining it. She eats a lot of pumpkin, not so keen on carrots though.

[Feijoa Mum]

I took DS to the DR because I thought his kidneys or liver were packing up or something

Nope just too much pumpkin and sweet potato for him too

His nose and fingertips were all orange like they were stained or something but no amounts of wiping or baths would shift it. Oh well we live and learn huh??

[sarah85]

Nope. It's pretty harmless! If you're worried, cut back on the orange vegies! You remember when it happened to Emma - i think I cut back a little on the orange vegies, and used things more like zucchini etc, and she went back to normal pretty quick.

[krystals]

haha, I do remember!!

Well, we have about a week's worth of pumpkin in the freezer at the moment, (in addition to the full pumpkins we have all over the place!) so I'm not sure it's going anywhere! But maybe I'll mix it differently before he starts looking like an oompa loompa

Ta!!! x

[Charlotte91]

Hmmm, I'll remember that.
I've been making and freezing baby food and just froze heaps of sweet potato.
Don't really want DD turning orange!! lol

[butterfly_warrior]

For ages, Sam would refuse to eat vegies unless they were mixed with pumpkin and sweet potato. His favourite combination was pumpkin, carrot and sweet potato...

I never noticed it at the time, but photos of him between the ages of about 7-11 months, the tip of his nose is distinctly orange. As he got older and his diet became more vaired it went away by itself. I'd actually only noticed it in photos when it had already gone.

BW

[Jennie13]

Not that this has anything to do with babies but when I worked at a Thorough bred (race horse) stud, they used to feed pumkin to the chesnut coloured yearlings to bring out a really burnt dark orange colour for the sales

[MrsBexie]

Wow!! I thought someone was joking but this is real?! Babies can turn orange from their food????

You learn something new everyday... Does it happen to every baby?