to have only just discovered what happens to my child after a FRUIT SHOOT

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even though I have used mumsnet for 2 years!???

what happened?

Was their thirst quenched in an uneventful way?

Shaz

that's what happens to mine

He was sooooooooo happy, bouncing around the house, leaping off the sofa etc etc. think I might start drinking them!

Do they really make kids hyper?? Or is the whole thing a bit OTT?

I too had a strange and disturbing experience after giving my 2 dcs a fruit shoot - they both said thank you and went back to playing!! Life here will never be the same again.

my dd had three on the trot today and she was fine. I think it's all rubbish about hyperactivity.

I tasted a Fruit Shoot for the first time the other day in McD's. It had a weird aftertaste! I am always strict about not letting DS1 have fizzy stuff, but now I don't think there is much point, having tasted that. Coke surely can't be worse...!

They taste disgusting to me but I'm with shaz......no worrying reactions going on in our house!

I dont think it gives you hyperactivity at all. My daughter has them and I drink them, and I dont see what the big deal is.

I read that it is very rare for any child to be affected by certain foods or additives.

I like Shaz's answer

I'm with Shaz

doesn't bother mine either.

Maybe your kids don't have a reaction to them, but many do and why would you deliberatly give a child a bottle full of chemicals??

They make DS hyper (esp the sugar free ones). Happily, the last time DS had one he then went to the loo 3 times in an hour, so I'm able to persuade him to avoid them now.

They are vile.

Having googled it, there are loads of studies suggesting a link. The IOW study seemed very conclusive, enough to make me think I was daft to buy them today.

'Full of chemicals'

What else could you give your child a bottle full of? I suppose you could give them a vacuum but then it wouldn't exactly be full.

I gave my 1 year old a bottle of chemicals today. Hydrogen and oxygen it was. Who's going to call the police?

Lol Shaz

Dangerous Shaz - do you know the ratio of the two - I hear some very bad things if it was 2 hydrogen for every oxygen - read here for more info

Shaz - you gave your child this?

Arse - Trillian beat me to it

makes my dd wild!! i quess some things effect some kids more than others, there is so much crap in them y would you want ur child drinking it even if it doesnt effect their behaviour?? (my dd had one at a party b4 someone says!!)