I'm hoping for some advice.
My child is 15 months old has had a constant ear infection since Sept which can only be controlled but not cured at the moment by antibiotics. Her ears have improved but it is still there. Both ears were very red when we started and with fluid bulging in both drums. The ENT was supportive of long term, low level antibiotics which stopped last week. He told us to go back after a month of taking them to be reviewed.
Unfortunately, my little one had another nursery cold when she stopped taking them so faced with another 40 temp, I returned to the GP last week and laid some cards on the table. I said that I wanted to avoid surgery if at all possible and I wanted a hearing test.
I also said that grommets are a grey area meaning that it is individual medical opinion as to whether to go ahead and have them, especially given her age. He was his usual brilliant self and said he entirely agreed so we're visiting him each week for a few weeks to keep those ears under review.
I feel such an idiot for not taking advice about stopping the low level antibiotics when my DD had a cold!
I'd be very grateful to hear from anyone who has had this problem at this sort of age.
It feels like there is a choice between having the fluid drained and grommets or low level antibiotics at the moment. The temperatures just climb out of control if she's not on the antibiotics.
Thanks again.
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Constant ear infections and grommets
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HBSBeeches · 21/01/2016 21:19
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