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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 399410" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>difficult child 1 got worse with Mountain Dew, as well as anything with caffeine. When "energy bars" came out claiming to contain a natural substance, guarana, difficult child 1 thought they would be OK. And guarana is loaded with caffeine.</p><p></p><p>Caffeine can sneak in via a lot of places. We found that chocolate was OK (I guess as long as the kid doesn't eat whole slabs of it) but caffeinated drinks and energy bars were the worst. Interestingly, difficult child 1 liked to drink commercial iced tea drinks and found problems with those too. We investigated and found that caffeine was at times added to those. It's not right, it's not added for any benefit other than to encourage you to come back and drink more of that drink because it makes you feel energised. </p><p></p><p>We found with difficult child 1 that his medications helped him a lot, but caffeine would eliminate any medication benefit - if he drank cola, he would rapidly begin to behave as if he had no medications on board.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 399410, member: 1991"] difficult child 1 got worse with Mountain Dew, as well as anything with caffeine. When "energy bars" came out claiming to contain a natural substance, guarana, difficult child 1 thought they would be OK. And guarana is loaded with caffeine. Caffeine can sneak in via a lot of places. We found that chocolate was OK (I guess as long as the kid doesn't eat whole slabs of it) but caffeinated drinks and energy bars were the worst. Interestingly, difficult child 1 liked to drink commercial iced tea drinks and found problems with those too. We investigated and found that caffeine was at times added to those. It's not right, it's not added for any benefit other than to encourage you to come back and drink more of that drink because it makes you feel energised. We found with difficult child 1 that his medications helped him a lot, but caffeine would eliminate any medication benefit - if he drank cola, he would rapidly begin to behave as if he had no medications on board. Marg [/QUOTE]
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