Re: Red ears

[Guest guest]

> Hi

> I mentioned the red, hot ear after eating gluten or casein but I

know that

> some kids get red ears from other allergies too. Pat Hello Pat, I

am new to this room and your topic is interesting to me. My son is 13

years old and has had red ears for as long as i can remember. I have

thought it was due to being out in the heat. Can you tell me more

about why gluten and casein may do this? I have noticed that when i

give him 1% milk he is less congested, the doctors have told me this

wouldn't cause less mucus. Any input would be helpful. Thanks Tammy

[Guest guest]

> My son is 13

> years old and has had red ears for as long as i can remember. I have

> thought it was due to being out in the heat. Can you tell me more

> about why gluten and casein may do this? I have noticed that when i

> give him 1% milk he is less congested, the doctors have told me this

> wouldn't cause less mucus. Any input would be helpful. Thanks Tammy

Red ears can be a sign of phenol intolerance, here is my info.

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

Dana

[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]

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

[Guest guest]

For my girls, we got the red ears during the early stages of the diet from

foods high in phenols, like bananas and such. After they were on the diet

for several months (and we had avoided foods high in phenols) we were able

to slowly re-introduce them without any red ears. Weird.

Peggy Sue

[Guest guest]

For my girls, we got the red ears during the early stages of the diet from

foods high in phenols, like bananas and such. After they were on the diet

for several months (and we had avoided foods high in phenols) we were able

to slowly re-introduce them without any red ears. Weird.

Peggy Sue

[Guest guest]

Hi Kim,

I didn't realize there was another Kim C. on the list! I think I

have seen you post before, but I must have missed the " C " .

has had this problem for many years - bright red ears for no apparent

reason. I have even taken him to a doctor for it. They couldn't

find any cause & didn't seem to be worried about it. I used to think

it had something to do with blood pressure, but doctors said no. I'm

curious to see if any other kids have had this problem.

Kim C (Capuano)

On Oct 13, 2005, at 11:11 AM, RSS-Support wrote:

> connor gets dark red ears alot lately. This happened in th past as

> well. Does anyone else have kids this happens to and/or what does

> this mean? I tried watching diet, behavior, etc. and cant yet find

> any correlation.

>

> Thanks Kim C

>

[Guest guest]

Kim,

Thank goodness you posted. I've been looking for the right Kim C. Anyway, I

wanted to thank you again for the Mic key tube you gave me for . Her

tube actually fell apart from her stomach and thank goodness I had the one you

gave me. So anyway, thanks again you were a lifesaver and a moneysaver for us.

We would have had to pay $250.00 just to go back to the doctors office to have

another put in.

Tammy

Mom to (will be 2 on the 30th)16lb 3 oz 29 1/2 inches RSS, GERD, Fundo,

repaired hernias and 6 1/2 ADHD

kimc wrote:

Hi Kim,

I didn't realize there was another Kim C. on the list! I think I

have seen you post before, but I must have missed the " C " .

has had this problem for many years - bright red ears for no apparent

reason. I have even taken him to a doctor for it. They couldn't

find any cause & didn't seem to be worried about it. I used to think

it had something to do with blood pressure, but doctors said no. I'm

curious to see if any other kids have had this problem.

Kim C (Capuano)

On Oct 13, 2005, at 11:11 AM, RSS-Support wrote:

> connor gets dark red ears alot lately. This happened in th past as

> well. Does anyone else have kids this happens to and/or what does

> this mean? I tried watching diet, behavior, etc. and cant yet find

> any correlation.

>

> Thanks Kim C

>