Does anyone elses dc react badly to squash and sweets with colours?

[Dragonhart]

DS (3 at the end of the month) has mostly had water since being a baby. He has had fresh juice diluted with his breakfast but I havent really given him squash as 1. he is happy to drink water and 2. to save me a bit of money.

I dont have a problem with him having it but I am finding that now he is socialising more with other los he wants what they have to drink ie squash. I have been giving it to him, but it seems to make him really really hyper. I am not sure if it is the sugar or colours or something else but it makes it very hard for me to control him and he can get quite physical too.

Now if he does not have it (when others are not having it happy to drink water) he still gets excited as he loves playing with other children but nowhere near as bad.

Anyone else with dc with similar reactions to things like squash or sweets with colours, what do you do? DO you just let them have it and take the cocequences or do you face the tamtrum when you say no?

hi
my ds who is now 5 cannot tollerate artificial colours etc.. behaviour was bad and also kept getting unexplained rashes
we have now banned the artificial colours and sweetners
this guide may be of use
known as the dirty dozen by organix :-

1. mechanically recovered/seperated meat
2. monosodium glutamate E621
3. sodium 5 - ribonucleotide E635
4. aspartame
5. acesulfame k
6. sodium saccharine
7. sodiun benzoate E211
8. sulpher dioxide E220
9. COLOURS:-

quinoline yellow E104 brilliant blue E133 sunset yellow E110 carmoisine E122 Ponceau 4R E124 Indigo carmine E132 10. High salt foods(more than 0.5g sodium or 1.2g of salt per 100g) 11. Hydrogenated fat, and more than 5g of saturated fat per 100g 12. Refind sugar

i was sent a little card with theese on by organix to keep in my purse

www.goodies.uk.com

p.s forgot to say my ds hits out has rashes etc and i find aspartame the worst culprit too i get headaches if i have a drink with aspartame in it
i give my ds milk water pure juice watered down he can have crusha milkshake but i avoid anything that says sugar free as they are usually full of artificial sweetners far better to give non suger free ones with more water in if need be. oh i only ever give him high juice if he has squash.
i to have been made to feel like im mad and my ds fun club superviser thinks im singling him out by not letting him have theese things.

My son is intolerant to the vast majority of artificial colours, additives and flavours...

Although his diet is all the more healthy for it, something kept causing the same reaction and we were struggling to pin point the cause...

Turns out it was CHEESE.
The NATURAL colour ANNATO used in the majority of cheeses (and many other things)causes him to go into a meltdown.

So although something might say it has no ARTIFICIAL colours it is still worth checking the ingrediants