going crazy!!!

Ok, i am officially going nuts. as in crazy nuts.

Yes, ayja has a few little bad days here and there where she might have a tiny little tantrum - pretty quickly resolved these days as she's getting older - but as i think i have previously mentioned colourings, and additives tend to make her turn into a really angry nasty piece of work. nasty skittish behaviour, angry reactions to everything, the word no in every sentence.

I am fairly sure this is not just coincidence.

So, after another stupid tantrum nasty behaviour round this afternoon - due to her having gone to a party where some lovely person gave her FANTA!! ....

I want to know - is there any official way of testing to find out what colourings etc she reacts to? If it turns her crazy doolally, would it react against her in a skin prick test... (probably not, just realised how stoopid that sounds).   I know there is something to this. I also know that anything red coloring makes her get little pimply things around her lips. and her skin on her cheeks flares up to this and probably a few other things (she had perfect skin until she began having more types of food at age 1 but we can't pinpoint it). Also with Ayja, certain types of food make her have loose poos and tummy aches and make her tummy bloat up likes shes a little preggy lady.

Paris just gets the skin on her cheeks flare up - but they were so bad just after she turned 1, when we introduced a few new things, that they were constantly breaking down cracking and bleeding. Somehow we managed to get them to heal but she is now, at age 4, getting regular oily pimply skin on her face.. which also worries me slightly. more and more pop up each time it happens.

How do i go about getting these guys tested, and are the things i've mentioned enough cause for a doctor to take me seriously? I have cut down how often they have weetbix because i wondered if that might be a cause as i know that i cannot now eat it anymore and since stopping the skin on my cheeks has gotten progressively smoother, and i definately notice if a make the mistake and have some for brekkie (they are quick to make and scoff down if running late in the morn) as i feel like utter bollocks, nauseous, bloated and crampy.

This is driving me batty - mainly the crazy behaviours for food additives with ayja- but yeah i guess if i knew what the heck it was that made their skin do these things then I would be able to try and avoid them better.

Any advice?

Nigel's cousin was like that as a toddler. She ended up having a skin prick test done on her back and it came back it was caffine that was doing it to her. Ask for a caffiene test maybe??

But caffine is hidden in some of the aditives, there is caffiene in fanta.

Or... and I hate to say it... elimination, then expose her to a decent amount of one and only one of the suspects and see what happens? I know, it doesn't give hard and fast answers and it's a complete PITA, but might help? How does her daycare work the food? Does she eat only the food packed for her, or do they prepare food for the kids? 'Cause you'd definantly need to explain to them what you're and when, doing and why it's important to you that there aren't any slip-ups. Good luck, chick.