Why are we saying her kids were sick with non-genetic illnesses? Has anyone actually READ anything about these diagnoses and the links between them? Asthma is absolutely genetic. It runs in families. My twin sister has asthma, and my brother had it too. My other brother and I didn't have it. (My Aunt has it, too- my dad's sister)
EOE, which one of the girls' had, is also linked with food allergies. Did that same girl have the tree nut allergy? Allergies can also be genetic. They've found genetic markers associated with EOE, too. A simple Google search linked me to a study/article about it.
And sometimes, you just get a bad roll of the genetic dice. Ear tubes? Are we really all that concerned about ear tubes? My brothers both had their ears tubed and I needed mine done (and now I have Meniere's Disease and random bouts of vertigo from fluid building up in my inner ear- it's a blast) but my parents never did it. That means 3 of 4 of my parents' children needed ear tubes (2 of which actually got them). And adenoidectomies are done often times in kids who have recurrent sinus/ear infections... so, no surprise that a child who had ear tubes also had an adenoidectomy.
Didn't the girls have prescriptions/inhalers and such? They were formerly diagnosed if she had equipment/prescription medication to treat their issues.
I guess it seems like a lot to be "diagnosed with" when you're not familiar with the diagnoses and co-diagnoses that go along with them.