Has Southwest Airlines banned aspartame from the cockpit?

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.

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