hot cheetos & GI probs

[cruzcontrol]

Hi everyone,

does anyone know of a website with pictures regarding the damage of hot cheetos/takis chips on kids teeth enamel and cause of heartburn in kids. My school allows kids to have these chips during lunch if the kid brings them from home. Worse I've seen teachers eating them as well.

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Thanks,

SC:banghead:

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

Ok . . so I did an informal survey today at snack time and lunch time. I asked kids with Flaming Hot Cheetos and Takis about how often they eat the chips - every day was the consensus.

I asked if they ever got heartburn or stomach pain or nausea after eating them.

All said no.

While I'm not crazy about the nutritional aspect of these chips, I've not seen any stomach issues.

[mkatts19]

My guess is that even if you were to find photos, not many would listen. Otherwise half the world would have stopped smoking & drinking from seeing lung and liver damage photos. I know people who eat those chips and don't have GI problems as well. That particular food might be bad but so are a dozen other things and depending on that child's body.. it might have an effect and it might not. I see that you want to help/educate other kids/family in your school but the best thing you can do is talk to your kids about what you want them to know. Maybe they'll tell other kids about it... but then again if they go to school with soda and poptarts all the time, it's kind of the same boat as kids who have the hot cheetos and what not. It starts with you, your kids and health teaching with them even if you can't affect other kids as much as you'd like to as well .

[HazelLPN, LPN]

I had a pregnant girl walk into the office eating flaming hot cheetos and in an act of complete unprofessionalism, I snached them out of her hand and threw them away and said "you're not feeding that crap to your unborn child!" This girl was also morbidly obese and a type II diabetic..at 14 years of age! I kind of felt like Nurse Ratched for a minute.

Home ecomonics are no longer taught in any of our schools. Kids only have one semester of health and one of physical education. I'm not sure if they are ever taught nutrition in schools. I know its not on the state tests, so it probably isn't taught (thanks politicians and testing companies who get in the way of teachers and school nurses making good decisions for kids).

Mrs H.

[nightie-night nurse]

My kids eat the flamin' hot cheetos occasionally and they don't get sick because of them. They also don't eat a lot of other spicy food, so I am not sure the correlation. But, I think it may have something to do with how much good food they are eating with it or the volume eaten. I still see a few students a week with stomach aches who have eaten them and are feeling sick, but not as many as last year.

I recently read a newspaper article about a school nurse that was trying to get them banned in their cafeteria based on the fact they are not a nutritious food item.

On a different note, I saw a 1st grader who "sniffed" Taki dust (Takis are another brand of spicy chips) and had an anaphylactic reaction. Fun times