Allergic reactions/Was Help, please if you can

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The red ears are a definite sign of a problem. Check out what he

ate - pure corn, or a product containing several ingredients? I

suggest listing all the ingredients in that food, then check it

against the ingredients in the next incident, etc., to determine what

the offending item is.

IMHO, the red ear/poop problem sounds like a classic allergic

reaction - I get a red face/hives/poop problem from certain molds on

food. My son reacts like this to aspartame/nutrasweet and to an

overload of artifical colors. With this type of a situation, the

problem only occurs when the allergen is ingested (or in my case,

touches my mouth), so it ceases to exist when the offending food is

removed, unlike delayed hypersensitivity or peptide problems which

are slower to resolve.

> Hello all,

> I have a question for all you experts... the last couple weeks we

have been having a lot of loose stools, where he is not quite making

it to the toilet. Which do you think is more likely...an inadvertant

infringement or a new food sensitivity showing up, such as bananas or

corn? His ears turned really red today after eating something with

corn in it, then 3 hrs later a major poop accident. I'm thinking of

taking out corn, but I'm dreading this big-time. Of course, I will

do it if necessary, as we are committed to this diet and all the

great improvements we've seen. If you do take out a food, how long

does it take to notice the difference?...