Fellow red-hot-ear sufferer here for the last 25+ years. When I was 6 my primary care and my allergist just shrugged it off.. so my parents kept a food journal for me and we narrowed it down to corn syrup at the time. So since then I've avoided corn syrup but it will still occasionally happen with other foods. Most commonly happens with certain pizza places.. it also happens a lot when I consume an unfiltered style of beer known often referred to a "Hazy IPA" So what does Pizza and unfiltered IPAs have in common? yeast. What feeds yeast? Sugar.. hence the corn syrup connection. I'm convinced this is a weird lesser known symptom of a yeast or a candida overgrowth. Between living in a culture that has added sugar in just about everything, and overprescribing anti-biotics without recommending probiotics afterwards.. it's not surprising that our gut biomes are messed up.. once that imbalance spreads elsewhere, it becomes really hard to put back in check
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Fellow red-hot-ear sufferer here for the last 25+ years. When I was 6 my primary care and my allergist just shrugged it off.. so my parents kept a food journal for me and we narrowed it down to corn syrup at the time. So since then I've avoided corn syrup but it will still occasionally happen with other foods. Most commonly happens with certain pizza places.. it also happens a lot when I consume an unfiltered style of beer known often referred to a "Hazy IPA"
So what does Pizza and unfiltered IPAs have in common? yeast. What feeds yeast? Sugar.. hence the corn syrup connection. I'm convinced this is a weird lesser known symptom of a yeast or a candida overgrowth. Between living in a culture that has added sugar in just about everything, and overprescribing anti-biotics without recommending probiotics afterwards.. it's not surprising that our gut biomes are messed up.. once that imbalance spreads elsewhere, it becomes really hard to put back in check