"Deirdre Saoirse Moen" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote:
Phenylketoneurics are the only people that have a legitimate cause to
worry about aspertame, but such persons must also avoid many other
more common foods such as milk, eggs, and hamburgers.

You are wrong.

I was hospitalized three times, suffering from near-drowning in my own
saliva, before I put two and two together and realized that it was
aspartame that caused the severe excess salivation. This is an immune
system response to the chemical.

Once I stopped drinking diet soda (and was careful to avoid aspartame in
all other forms), the problem stopped. On a side note, I can't tolerate
stevia or more than about a half-can of a splenda-containing soda
either. Cyclamates, however, are fine for me.

There are plenty of people who have bad reactions to aspartame who are
not phenylketoneurics. They simply have different symptoms.

Yeah, even psychosomatic symptoms are real symptoms, aren't they.