Toddler has eaten too much sugar

[SickAndTiredAgain]

DD (2.5) got into a box of chocolate I’d been given - totally my fault I was hanging some washing on the airer in the next room while she watched tv, and the chocolate was up on the bookshelf. She generally doesn’t take things off shelves so I didn’t even think (and I hadn’t eaten any of the chocolate so wouldn’t think she’d even know it was food really, we don’t eat much chocolate generally).
Anyway, she has eaten so much. Far far more sugar than I would ever give her, and far more than I’d eat in one go.
What can I expect now - I’m anticipating fairly copious vomiting pretty soon? Is that a given? If she’s ok in a couple of hours, will she probably keep it all down?

I know no one can say, and I’m just overthinking really, but I don’t really deal that well with vomit and am still suffering with some pregnancy nausea/sickness so could really do without toddler vomit setting me off as well. She had a vomiting bug earlier in my pregnancy, and a day of morning sickness plus vomiting toddler was miserable.

Nothing will happen

My DC have always had as much chocolate as they like on Christmas Day & Easter and over 10+ years we've had...
No vomiting from it
No constipation or diarrhea
No sugar highs or comedowns

They stop eating when they've had enough!

My eldest smuggled a full family bag of skittle id gotten for my birthday up to her room and hid them under the bed.

6am the next morning I wondered why it was so quiet when she was usually pestering us from 5ish. I went in and she’s sat on the floor SURROUNDED by skittles. She’d gotten through a good 1/2 of the bag.

The impact was she went WILD about an hour later until 11am when she crashed and went in a foul mood. Wouldn’t eat any food for the rest of the day and woke up at 10pm that night having shat herself.

She’ll be fine don’t worry!

This reminds me of story my mother told about my brothers (twins, age 1-2) eating a load of cigarettes (~1960). Like half a carton, I mean. I think some vomitting was involved but only for one twin not other -- that was worst of it. They were fine later. Don't think they even got taken to hospital.

As you all predicted, she was fine. It was just my anxiety making me fuss. And I knew she wasn’t going to be in any danger or anything, it was just the immediate vomiting that I was getting myself in a flap about.
I’m always more panicky when there’s the threat of vomiting (or if I think there is), whenever she’s actually been sick I’m able to deal with it.

I’m the same with Vomit OP 😬, I hate it.
You will be surprised how much a child can eat without being sick, my dd will eat loads and has never made herself sick through eating.

@MerryMarigold

This thread is so funny...

I'd be livid if my toddler ate my precious, handmade chocolates! How very dare she - she'd have been happy with Cadbury's I'm sure.

Seriously though, OP, the kids who seem to binge on sweets/ choc/ junk are those who are very much denied it (as opposed to families who are fairly relaxed about it). I used to find it very funny at birthdays when my friend's kids (who were not allowed sweets) went crazy and basically stood next to any food bowls gorging on crisps and sweets, whereas my kids were having fun with the party activities and didn't really notice the food as it is not 'forbidden fruit' in our house.

She’s not really denied chocolate, it’s just that neither DH or I have much of a sweet tooth so we just don’t tend to buy it much - this chocolate was a gift. I’m much more likely to snack on crisps than a biscuit for example, so I’m not being any healthier, just eating different things. We’ve never consciously decided to restrict chocolate, but also we don’t buy it just for her. We had more sweet stuff at Christmas and she was allowed it, and I bake with her reasonably often so she does have sweet stuff, we just don’t often buy it day to day.