which foods to avoid? help please!!!!!!

[turquoisenights]

Hello Everyone,
I would love to know which foods I have to avoid to stop my 6 years old dd fidgeting and being hyper?
Thanks.

Well I would try to avoid processed food in general - not trying to say it will stop her fidgeting but it will certainly help her.

Do you tend to cook from scratch or use a lot of ready prepared stuff?

There was a list of colours recently published that are supposed to be harmful - will go and dig it up.

As much fresh foods as possible - you need to know what you are putting in her.

Drinks - avoid all squash, artificial sugars and colourings. If possible just water or some fruit juice.

Check everything for artificial colours/flavours (yoghurts etc too) - you need real sugars and real colours/flavours.

I managed to do a whole party of party food with not one artificial sugar,colour or flavour last week (until someone turned up with lollies ) and it was still all party food iyswim and all of it eaaaaaaaaasy.

This might be helpful
guardian article

Hi

Its quite complex, there are several diets you can try

Firstly i would just curt out the coloured / over processed stuff- squash, things with very high sugar content, artificial sweetenersetc etc. If that doesdn't work, salycylates are supposed to be a good diet- helped with mine. You'd need to search that, but try the squash / sugar etc diet first tbh. if you hit jackpot, start introducing banned foods back in one by one and you may well isolate a particulalr cause.

A tip I was given is the culprit is often the food they crave the most. Worth keeping a lookout for (it was DS1's nutritionist who said that)

Also would suggest starting your child on some EFA supplements, there are loads available, holland and barratt do capsules, boots do a nice tasting medicine and many people recommend Eye-Q liquid.

I would say though that some 6 year olds are fidgety and just meant to be that way! But the healthy diet / EFA approach is worth a go.

OOh you got Peachy in the auction??

I was lucky in the end - just going for very basic food worked for us so we didn't have to go the salicylates route

Yep finally own it

Actually suspect i did before- ther were a few aborted log ins at one point when a former PC wouldn't let me talk LOL!

Are things going well with your LO now?

THank you Everyone
She only drinks water and milk.
She doesnt like fruit.
I cook from scratch generally.
She likes spicey meals like curry which I dont put too much spice in it.
And she eats white-basmati rice.
She likes, eats stir fry vegetables-chicken, likes chocolate a lot. She doesnt eat sweets.
And I am giving her Eskimo Oil everyday.

lol!

Things are going really well at the moment - we are giving plenty of warning before any changes and everything seems to be going smoothly. She has had a few big school induction sessions, and apparently (mum is currently having the headteacher as a lodger, so insider information) she is the child who has just gone in and got on with what she wants to do like she has been there for years - the others have all spent at least some time with their parent etc looking a bit nervous. She has abandoned me instantly each time and sodded off to do her thing .

Well it sounds like she has a good diet though I would look at salicylates in that case- you'd be surprised what is on there (spices and fruit / veg mainly )

perhaps try a different brand of EFA? Apaprently some kids become more hyper on some than otjers (agin according to nutritionist)

The Eskimo fish oil is the one we agreed with the school nurse together, its pure fish oil.
I suspect it can be from the spicey food, but she is so picky and it is her favorite.
I try not to give too much chocolate, but she gets some everyday.
As i said she is so picky, she doesnt like any kind of breakfast other than milk.
Does milk make her hyper?

No, but low blood sugar might if she's n0t eating regularly. Milk is a good and complete food but she would need something else as well i think.

Chilli is very high in salycylates but I agree its hard if they wont eat much. However, unless they have a medical condition such as ASD its is true they are unlikely to stick a no eating policy for very long at all. Tomato is also high, and that's common in spicy foods.

Chocolate in fact isnt too bad a s a food but it can give a sugar crash and if she isnt eating much protein and 'bulk' I suspect thast the isue here.

Thanks very much Peachy

She may be sensitive to amines (which would mean chocolate was out)

I would try and get a copy of Sue Dengate's Fed Up, which explains the SAFE diet and then the challenges for various food chemicals.

Oh no amines

Please don't tell DS1's nutritionist!!
He's already gluten / asein / lactose / salicylate free

I cannae take no more