Currently going through the process to get DD8 diagnosed of long suspected ADHD (strong family history so very likely) . We started some vitamins last week in desperation and she really seemed to be much calmer - relative to her usual destructive, manic behaviour that is 10,000x worse thanks to lockdown.
Anyway she had a play date on Monday with her cousin (they are in our bubble) and my sister and niece between them unthinkingly gave her a lot of a sugary treats and sweets. Not their fault, I should have been very specific about it and I didn’t think to be, I’m tired and stressed out managing 3 kids and working etc. Not only did that screw up her sleep - a nightly battle since she was about 3 and we’ve just started on magnesium - but for the next 3 days or so her behaviour has been awful. We had one good week in the whole of lockdown being last week when she started on the vitamins recommended for ADHD and the change was incredible. The. She went to my sisters house and had all the sugar and it’s been awful since. My sister’s house I would say is a very calm, lovely place and she adores going there, I have no reason whatsoever to think it’s anything else, and my sister really understands SN kids and is brilliant, the only thing I can think of was all the sugary crap.
So my question is if you have a child with ADHD, is there such a thing in your experience as a sugar hangover or a bad reaction lasting several days? I can’t find any information. We don’t have much of that stuff really, for obvious reasons, but I wonder if a big hit of artificial crap can cause such a big effect setting us back several days?
Thanks in advance.