To be horrified at an 18mth old drinking actimel?

[shootfromthehip]

Was at playgroup the other day and one of the LOs sat down for her snack to be given some fruit, a biscuit and an Actimel as her drink.

Am I missing something cos I can't think of one single reason why a perfectly healthy 18mth old should be having one of these?

So, AIBU?

too much time on your hands (not the first time I have said this today on MN!)

But I would be horrified if anyone thought that there was enough pro-biotic in any of those drink-y things to make a blind bit if difference to a child's health - antibiotics or no antibiotics. They are such an expensive scam! Maybe that's what the OP meant?

Probably more tasty then yakult. These look like off milk (bleugh)!

Nothing wrong with that, really, I think. Maybe a more liquid drink would have been better from a hydration point of view, but otherwise I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.

if it was coca-cola from a bottle with a teat on and the child was 5 you might- might be justified in being horrified, but it's not really a problem is it, an actimel?
if it were my dd she would have cajoled me into letter her have it with "please mummy, little tiny bottle, little tiny one?"

i can see why the OP might have looked askance at this, btw. it does depend on the reason... if it's anti-bs then cool, but i do think that it's not outwith the bounds of possibility that the mum thought it was a health drink. which it is... kinda. but also kinda not.

I thought children had to be 3 or over to have those Actimel drinks? DD1 and DD2 just get water in this house but maybe because I am a mingebag,

YABU - what's your problem?

"horrified"

my ds had a sip of my tea today. would that horrify you? (it had 2 sugars)

oooh, it's a pile-on.

(Bleugh)Tea! I hate tea! I'm not horrified though but will never forgive you for this gemummy.

My dcs both like yoghurt, lots of children do so I don't see how its horrifying. GPs recommend them after antibiotics or D&V bugs, at least mine does.

I was in Wetherspoons this morning for a family breakfast
a dad was there , on his 2nd pint at 10.45 and gave his 9 month old a sip of his beer

I think fanny is right (about them only being recommended for children over the age of 3) perhaps that is what the op meant.

If I was a bit mean (yes I was) earlier in the thread then I apologise.

Might get DCs to dress up as bottles of actimel for halloween

i've just realised i've bitten a little teeny bit here but come on....actimel. bloody crime of the century, i think not. now i have pfb syndrome all the time but bloody hell! some people have no idea! (sometimes i feed my ds chips)

russian sil takes actimel and says it is a nutritionally poorer but similar version of what she has always used.

drinking beer at 10:45! Disgusting! Alcohol and a baby isn't the best idea in the world.

you were in WETHERSPOONS??!! [horrified]

she had maybe been on antibiotics, or the mum had and is still BFing and wanted to cover all options.

lol at grimble

actimel or fruit shoots?

i couldn't get DD2 to drink actimel. but have managed to get plenty of Yeo Valley into her these days, poor soul.

YABU. It's a yoghurt, not a rock of crack.

is not recommended for children (check out their own website www.actimel.co.uk/your_questions_answered.php# - scroll down a bit for the q/a
but yabu to be 'horrified'