foods that make kids agro/hyper

Ok, so clearly, she's not allergic to them, but may as well be. Does anyone else have a kid that goes nuts from having things with colourings/flavourings etc in them?

Ayja's an active kid in bed anyway moving about alot, but pamol at night turns her into a kid that's rolling around the bed screaming in her sleep.. every time she has it this happens.(only given for mega high temps now)

Add to that many many other foods..... everything for her is plain as we can be.. superwines, plain rice crackers, ricies or weetbix for brekkie, and heaps of fruit etc. Don't get me wrong, that's fine.

Anyway, chocolate with cocoa in it (ie, normal chocolate) is THE WORST. I am dreading this weekend, have said to most people that we are getting her WHITE chocolate in the hopes they will follow our example.    

Chocolate is baaaad with her.. half a freddo frog after dinner one night for pudding - she stayed awake till 10pm.   The other day my sister brought us over some home made moulded chocolates, with mostly all white chocolate for the kids, she told me she made ayja's all white chocolate.. of course the kids were nagging the next day and in a hurry i gave the wrong bag to the wrong kid and told them to choose one small one each. Ayja, picking from Paris's bag, found THE ONLY dark chocolate one, same size as a freddo and scoffed it in her mouth before i actually cottoned on to my mistake. Up till then we'd had a good day. Within 20-30 mins of having this she was agressive (overly so), tantruming, screaming, crazy and uncontrollable.

Anyway, long story short... anyone else have a kid like this that's super sensitive to additives and colourings?
Do they grow out of it? and can anyone give me some more ideas for foods that can be little treats that aren't so crazy-inducing?

Edited by mum2paris

I worked with a guy who got hypo on E numbers and he was in his late 20s, he knew though so avoided them like the plague. Well except when drinking then he would drink alchopops and OMG, funny though.

New World stock some organic products and there are some treats called Outback Crackers, they don't have any artificial stuff in and are very yummy. You could also look in the organic shops for biscuits etc. More expensive but if just for treats it shouldn't be too bad.

Yep ME!!!

I had major issues with cocoa as a child from about 2 till I was 9, and I also had issues with caffine at them same time. So I wasn't allowed chocolate or soft drink coz whenever I did I went nuts.

Carob will become your friend for the next few years, there are some really yummy carob eggs out there (well there were) and my parents made a big deal out of carob for me. It was my special chocolate and noone else was allowed it. When I was about 7 they tried white chocolate with me and that was fine. So again the carob and white chocolates were mine.

I think Andrew has got my lovely genes with chocolate and caffine so i'm watching what he is having as well.

My brother was/is the same, but he was later diagosed with ADHD so who knows how much of it was actually diet related. BUt he was never allowed coke coz the caffeine or colors or something in it made him go loopy, and Mum spent his entire childhood experimenting with various additive/coloring/preservative free foods to try and rein in his hyperactivity.

You could ice the wine biscuits with plain white icing to liven them up a bit, or use natural coloring sources. My boss had pink lemonade at her daughters birthday party that was colored with a dash of cranberry juice.

Slightly different, but my husband had/has ADHD and while anything with artificial colour and flavours made him go crazy, anything with caffene actually calmed him down. His 4 older brothers and sisters used to give him their coffee as a preschooler and it would make him quite calm! Apparently ritelin has caffene in it too. Even now if he can't sleep he'll have a cup of coffee and he'll go out like a light.