Spooks and scares are everywhere on Halloween, but nothing’s more frightening than your kid’s post-candy binge stomachache. You know, the one they come down with every year, about 10 minutes after they rip open the first candy bars and begin the carnage. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying some sweet treats on Halloween, but it’s no fun when your little (or not-so-little) ones feel the stomach distress after the sugar starts to hit.

There are a few reasons why the candy stomachache happens, none of which will surprise you too much. “Candy is made from nutritional and non-nutritional ingredients,” Dyadin Esharif, MD, a pediatric gastroenterologist and medical director at Pediatrix Gastroenterology of Florida, tells SheKnows. Some of those ingredients: sugar, artificial sweeteners, and food

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