Darla,

What are allergic "shiners"?


Darlene Doucette wrote:
>
> You responded to my post with this remark...
> > My husband gets a runny nose within a few minutes of eating any form of
> > dairy
> >  and it lasts about four days.  He didn't know he was allergic until about
> a
> >  year ago; his nose ran every single day of his life up until then.  He
> wasn't
> >   breastfed and had asthma, ear infections and chronic bronchitis as a
> child.
> >  Kim
> >
>  My son had chronic ear infections, 37 recorded Dr visits by age 34 months.
> He had tubes put in also.  I have been told I have chronic bronchitis because
> I get a bad case about 2 times a year.
> When son had asthma atack, he was put on a nebulizer.  Kept it 8 months and
> did a lot of reading in that time.  He always had the allergic "shiners" too.
> Read about milk connection and removed dairy from his diet. 2 weeks later he
> was symptom free.  Both kids drink Rice Dream now.   Son is ADHD & OCD too.
>  Not sure if daughter has it or if she is imitating brothers.  (Our oldest
> son -age 11, was reacted to dairy as an infant but has no apparent problems
> now, tho he has ADD.  Youngest son age 18 months - not sure about him...he
> has allergic shiners but no other symptom.
> Darla