EAR INFECTIONS
Childhood ear infections are intimately connectedto diet. Well-fed children do not get earinfections and breastfed children whose mothershave a good, traditional diet simply do not get earinfections. If you are breastfeeding and the yourbaby is getting ear infections, then you need toreexamine your own diet.
The most common dietary culprit is pasteurizedmilk—both in the infant and in the breastfeedingmother.
If, despite your best efforts, an ear infectionoccurs, a warm wheat bag on the ear provides enormous pain relief. A warm wheat bag is madeof fabric filled with plain unground wheat kernels—you can make your own if you want. Theseare widely used in Australia. The only reason wehave ever used the microwave in our house is toheat the wheat bag. You put it in the microwavewith 1/2 cup of water for a minute or two so thatit becomes just hot to the touch. These are reallycomforting for the child.
Drops of warm olive oil in the ear provide relief although it may be difficult to get yourchildren to agree to this. Luckily when my son had ear infections we were living on an olive farm in napier in south africa and so it was simpler for us to persuade him to use it as a pain relief.
Ear candling also provides relief. This is howwe healed the double ear infection my son hadat 15 months (this was before we discovered theWAPF diet). Ear candles don’t really clean outyour ear —that is misinformation—but they blowwarm smoke into your ear that helps dry out anymoisture that may be in there.