red ears

[Guest guest]

My son's ears have always been this way. I have told dr's but no comments

from them on it. Its been a week since we started casein free and I have only

seen red ears twice. I am waiting to see when we go glutein free. I assume

diff kids ears are responding to different foods that trigger it. If you

make a connection, post it and I will too. Hopefully anyone that has pin

pointed a certain food to it, can post.

[Guest guest]

We've been gfcf for 7 weeks now. Every now and then I've noticed my

son's ears looking redder than normal, doesn't happen all the time

and usually it's just one ear. I've dismissed it before but tonight

I noticed both ears red and he was very irritable (wouldn't eat

supper, ran from me, very disagreeable about the slightest thing,

then wanted to just go to bed). I remember reading about allergies

and intolerances and red ears being a sign of something. Could

someone give me some clues as to what these red ears are trying to

tell me? I haven't been able to pin down a food that could be the

cause of the red ears yet and was wondering how soon after eating a

food that he's intolerant to would we see a reaction (immediately,

hour later, next day). Any help appreciated.

[Guest guest]

My son used to have red ears all the time, he very rarely has them

any more I think that it is possibly phenol related. The problem with

identifying what caused them is that our son is now on a GFCF, low

phenol, low salycilate, low sugar, no caffeine, organic meat, corn

free, soy free diet, so we don't know exactly which of the

eliminations helped, and we aren't in a hurry to experiment and find

out, even though that would be the smart scientific way to do things.

I think Karyn Serrousis' book discussed this subject. Some high

phenols are apples, almonds, bananas, tomatoes,you can find out more

about salycilates on the feingold web site. Don't lose your mind in

information overload, do things as you get a handle on them. For us

the diet is very simple, but we are lucky, our son is quite

compliant. His diet consists of rice,rice pasta,rice cakes, potatoes

(oven fries), a good brand of potato chips,broccoli, peas, pears,

potato and rice bread, french toast made with coconut milk, eggs and

cinnamon, baked chicken, broiled hamburgers,organic turkey sausages

(the only ingredients are turkey, garlic,salt), he drinks pacific

rice milk watered down with rice protein added and a cal/mag

supplement. Pototo flyers, homemade pear or pineapple(made from

concentrate) popsicles, cashew butter. The hard part is finding a

good bread.Weve been at this for a year and its not that bad, but my

sons not in school yet so I think that makes it easier. I know there

are many people out there who aren't nearly as restrictive and are

having great successes, I just don't like the guess work for myself.I

hope something here may help.

> We've been gfcf for 7 weeks now. Every now and then I've noticed

my

> son's ears looking redder than normal, doesn't happen all the time

> and usually it's just one ear. I've dismissed it before but

tonight

> I noticed both ears red and he was very irritable (wouldn't eat

> supper, ran from me, very disagreeable about the slightest thing,

> then wanted to just go to bed). I remember reading about allergies

> and intolerances and red ears being a sign of something. Could

> someone give me some clues as to what these red ears are trying to

> tell me? I haven't been able to pin down a food that could be the

> cause of the red ears yet and was wondering how soon after eating a

> food that he's intolerant to would we see a reaction (immediately,

> hour later, next day). Any help appreciated.

[Guest guest]

> We've been gfcf for 7 weeks now. Every now and then I've noticed my

> son's ears looking redder than normal,

Red ears is a sign of phenol intolerance. Here is my information on

that.

http://home.pacbell.net/cscomp/phenol.htm

Dana