Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Thyroiditis (are they related?)

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Hi everyone,

I've been scouring the internet all night reading about this condition

eosinophilic esophagitis which is almost always an allergic reaction to food

(usually milk, eggs, wheat, soy, fish, or nuts) where eosinophils attack the

esophagus (or other parts of the intestine causing inflammation. This may be the

missing link for our 10-year old daughter who is being treated for Hashimoto's

thyroiditis right now but also has eosinophils which the doctors can't account

for. She's had reflux/heartburn-type symptoms since birth so I wonder if she's

had eosinophilic esophagitis all this time!

And I wonder if the eosinophils are involved in the attack on her thyroid? That

could tie everything together!

I found an amazing study online where a doctor put his patients with

eosinophilic esophagitis on a diet that excluded milk, wheat, soy, fish, eggs,

and nuts and most of the patients had complete recovery!

Here is the link for this study.

http://www.ccjm.org/content/77/1/51.full

It sound like most of these patients are reacting to the six foods listed above

with milk and wheat the most common.

I wonder if this is something that a lot of others have?