Have you tried this diet to prove your ETD is food allergy related?

FOOD SUSPECTS
Most-Allergenic Foods

berries
buckwheat
chocolate
cinnamon
citrus fruits
coconut
corn
dairy products
egg whites
mustard
nuts
peas
peanut butter
pork
shellfish
soy
sugar
tomatoes
wheat
yeast

Least-Allergenic Foods
apples
apricots
asparagus
avocados
barley
beets
broccoli
carrots
cauliflower
chicken
cranberries
dates
grapes
honey
lamb
lettuce
mangoes
oats
papayas
peaches
pears
poi
raisins
rice
rye
safflower oil
salmon
squash
sunflower oil
sweet potatoes
turkey
veal

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I could eat anything before I had eustachian tube dysfunction / this horrible itiching inside my ears. Now I find there are certain foods that agitate it and I understand that the middle-ear space becomes prone to allergies once infected. I started the elimination diet a couple of days ago and I will post again next week to tell whether it has improved or not.

I have eliminated all gluten/wheat from my diet and my ETD (Patulous Eustachian Tube) is (almost) completely gone. I HIGHLY recommend it!

I have not read ANYTHING referring to this ANYWHERE. Where is the research that supports this?

Since I started the diet last week, I have noticed an improvement in my sleeping. Difficult to know what to have for breakfast because there is gluten and wheat in ALL cereals.

Hi!

If you are looking for a milk substitute so you can still have your cereal....have you ever tried rice milk? or almond milk? I had to switch my son off dairy and after reading so much about it I no longer ingest any dairy either....We use Enriched rice dream...it comes in flavors and the chocolate its great... (also good for hot chocolate in the mornings..)..my son likes the vanilla also for drinking and uses the plain for cereal etc... it is really good in our opinion! And the enriched is full of calcium/vitamins etc... You can also get almond milk which is great too ..either of these would replace soy if that is what you have been drinking. Soy did not agree with either one of us...

good luck! It is hard to eat different than others...but you have to do what you have to for your body and your health!

Since I started the diet last week, I have noticed an improvement in my sleeping. Difficult to know what to have for breakfast because there is gluten and wheat in ALL cereals.

Never fear! There ARE breakfast cereals that you can eat. I eat Crispix. . .I've read and re-read the ingredients and there is NO wheat or gluten. I can also eat Corn Chex or Rice Chex. . .although I found Barley Malt in those, but I'm not sure if that makes a difference. Also, I believe that Puffins cereal is gluten free. A little spendy, but good. You will find a lot of alternative foods in the organic/natural food section of your grocery store.
Hope that helps!:wave:

Well still on the diet and no improvement whatsoever.

The breakfast part is the only thing that might be throwing the experiment off. I am having a generous bowl of quaker oat crunch (small percentage of wheat in ingredients) with oat milk. Rice milk really does cause irritation.. Maybe I should cut out oat milk too..

So I am left with raisins in porridge with water..