glue ear in 4 year old

[caper]

my friends 4 year old daughter has glue ear. apparantly just behind the drum. the specialist wants to put her on antibiotics to see if it clears it, even though he thought the fluid/substance was sterile and if that doesn't work then wants to put grommits (tubes to drain the fluid)in. She has tried to get in to see a natural doctor, but can't find one, does anyone have suggestions regarding this. What is safe for a 4 year old to do?

Cheers Caper

[shelley]

When ears get clogged, it means that there was mucous/congestion that started in the throat, or bowels, liver and lymph and went unattended. For little kids, the usual suspect is milk/lactose intolerance and too many fun foods with refined sugar and flour, frozen dinners, fast foods, mixing fruit with meats, exposure to second-hand smoke, frequent colds/cough, being fed infant formula. They're just not well equipped to deal with all this. Moreover, she may not have adequate bowel flora, especially if she wasn't breast fed or hasn't been eating organic yogurt/kefir regularly.

Have they used any of the standard ear wax dissolvers? Ear candling? ear irrigation? I'd do those before antibiotics, antibiotics will just get her on the candida merry-go-round and congest her even more. I'd do ear candling way before installing those shunt things.

They can also put ear drops of pure sesame oil with garlic juice, but that's usually done for infection and this may not be. Could be candida tho.

She should also be gargling with a solution of colloidial silver or grapefruitseed extract. There's a tube that goes from the ear to the mouth, and if it gets clogged/infected, that prevents the ear from draining or changing pressure.

Try some of the above and cut out milk, chocolate milk, most cheese and stick to whole foods for awhile, including lots of high-fiber meals, it should resove pretty quickly. Kids bounce back fast. She should eat broths, soups, kichadi, whole grain hot cereal preferably gluten-free, the basic cleansing salad, carrot cleansing salad, cooked fruits, basic veggies, sweet potatoes and not much else for awhile.

Hope that helps!

[caper]

Thanks shelly have passed on the info.