Well, Dr. Feingold was onto something.
Hyper really is spelled l-e-m-o-n. Or k-e-t-c-h-u-p. As we've been testing salicylates for Ian, these two have had very strong, noticeable reactions. Ian bounces off the walls (and ceilings, furniture, doors, and people) after eating lemon or tomato. We knew this about ketchup...we've watched Ian bounce around the kitchen after having ketchup more than once. In fact, Ian was literally climbing up the window sills at Steak N' Shake the other night after having french fries with ketchup.
On Tuesday, Ian and I went to go help out friends pack. They aren't moving too far away (yay!), but they still had to pack things up well enough to get it all in a moving van. We took a break to eat Italian Ice. I knew Ian would react to cherry, but I let him try lemon. Not 15 minutes later, he was tearing around the house, having the time of his life at top speed! I'm glad to know this about lemons before summer time and lemonade season hits (we've been purposely avoiding lemonade until we knew about lemons).
The good news is that Ian doesn't get mean off of lemons and ketchup. I can deal with hyper much better than mean! I'm pretty sure vanillin (artificial vanilla flavor) is a huge meanness culprit. That still needs further testing, but I'm about 90% positive. I think grapes cause meanness too. Strange, huh? In any case, I am so glad we know about Feingold!
Wow that is crazy!!! You spend your life trying to get your kids to eat fruit and then you find out that something like this is possible! Glad you are getting things figured out!
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