sugar and e numbers

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to think that my childs tantrum may be limked to fizzy orange drink and e numbers he was given at a party today? I don't usually allow these but on two occasions he has been given them at parties. Today he has had a horrendous tantrum that has left me in tears. The tantrum started when it was time to leave. He is 7years old.

parties wind kids up anyway. They get overexcited.

Doesn't need to be affected by sugar/enumbers for that to happen.

CHild of our time did an experiment on it and showed it was the excitment of the party affecting the children and it happened with or without enumbers/sugar.

No, YANBU. My DS, now 10yo reacted horribly to anything with blue colouring in, or anything with raspberry flavour in, or anything with loads of sugar. You could see the change come over him if he managed to get hold of them. I remember the best one was when a well meaning friend (No DC herself at that time) gave him 1 (one) purple fruit polo. We were at a do held in a sports hall, which was lucky. He was 5 years old and did not stop running around the perimiter of the hall for 2 hours straight.

dd reacts to certain e-numbers.

She gets very angry and agressive and is an absolute nightmare to deal with.

ds1 doesn't seem to react to them but i try and avoid them at home for both of them anyway.

sugar doesn't do a thing to them.

BUT as others have said, parties exhaust children anyway and hype them up to the point of insanity only to send them home at the peak of their excitement with nothing but a few haribo and a crappy piece of plastic that falls apart on the way home and precipitates complete and utter emotional meltdown.

As TheArmadillo said, parties get kids overexcited anyway.

Sugar rush not really relevant. Studies have been done where children went to a party, some were given sugary snacks, some not. Half the parents were told their kids had had sugary food, others were told they had not. The parents who were told that their kids had had lots of sugar said the children were more hyper. Whether they had really had any sugar or not was completely unlinked to how hyper the parents thought they behaved.

When i was young it was the e200 numbers and less that made me crazy

look them up and see what they mean and do individually and just try to avoid them numbers and so how you get on.

hth